Winamac’s abandoned grain elevator will soon be replaced with a splash pad, thanks to a local family. Plans for the Owen Abbott Memorial Splash Pad were unveiled during Monday’s Winamac Town Council meeting.
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The west entrance to the Winamac Town Park could soon become a little safer. Town manager and park board member Brad Zellers told the rest of the board Thursday that the town plans to apply for a Community Crossings Grant to ease the slope of Main Street east of Riverside Drive.
Continue readingThe Winamac Park Board will reorganize for the year tonight. Two new members are expected to take their seats for the first time, and members will choose this year’s president and vice-president. The board’s secretary and attorney will be up for reappointment, and Park Manager Dave DeLorezno is scheduled to give his monthly report.
Continue readingThe Town of Winamac is keeping much of its leadership the same for another year, but a few uncertainties remain. During the first town council meeting of 2021 Monday, members reappointed Mike Buchanan as chief of police.
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The Winamac Park Board will have some extra money to work with, thanks to donations to the Community Foundation of Pulaski County. Town manager and park board member Brad Zellers told the town council last week that this year’s payout from the foundation’s Winamac Park Fund is just over $27,000. That money is typically used to help with projects, rather than day-to-day expenses.
Continue readingThe Winamac Town Park will be getting some cosmetic upgrades over the coming months. Park Manager Dave DeLorenzo told the Winamac Park Board Thursday that he’s planning to hire a company for a tree maintenance project after the first of the year. That will include removing two dying silver maples near the entrance gate and trimming the trees by the softball diamond, among other work.
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The Winamac Park Board meets tonight at 6:00 EST in the Winamac Municipal Utilities Complex.
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The Winamac Park Board members will be looking at different projects for 2021 in the coming weeks.
Continue readingThe Winamac Town Park will soon get a new wheelchair-accessible swing. Phillip Crippin has offered to add the swing as part of an Eagle Scout project. After reviewing his proposal, the town’s park board earlier this month agreed to let him proceed.
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The Winamac Park Board appears to have reached a solution to the Town Park’s pickleball problem. Rather than allowing the shared tennis and pickleball court to be re-equipped exclusively for pickleball, board president and pickleball player Jon Chapman suggested an idea to make it easier to have both sports.
Continue readingThe Winamac pickleball debate is expected to continue during tonight’s park board meeting. To accommodate growing demand, pickleball players want the shared tennis and pickleball court at the Town Park to be re-equipped exclusively for pickleball. But some of the park board members wanted more time to look into options for keeping tennis somewhere in the park.
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Now that the front of the Winamac Town Park has new restrooms, attention is once again turning to the restrooms in the fairgrounds. The Winamac Park Board recently agreed to let Northern Indiana Power from the Past apply for grant funding.
Continue readingWinamac’s pickleball players say they need more courts to accommodate demand, but some park board members still don’t want to give up on tennis. A couple years ago, the park board agreed to re-stripe the Town Park’s remaining tennis court for both tennis and pickleball.
Continue readingThe Winamac Park Board will continue discussing the possibility of an ADA-compliant swing in the Town Park. Phillip Crippin has offered to install the swing as part of an Eagle Scout project.
Continue readingEagle Scout projects continue to be considered by the Winamac Park Board. Board members Thursday voted to let Shawn Pratt install a gaga ball pit in Rhinehart Park, but they wanted to do more research before letting him add one to the Town Park.
Continue readingThe Winamac Park Board will meet at the new restroom pavilion in the Town Park tonight. The old restrooms were recently replaced, following years of planning, with funding help from a Land and Water Conservation Fund grant.
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Landscaping upgrades at the entrance to the Pulaski County Fairgrounds have gotten some financial support from 4-H leaders and fair organizers. The Winamac Park Board has decided to install landscaping stone in the island where the entrance sign is located and surround it with curbing to replace the rotting wooden posts.
Continue readingThe Winamac Park Board will meet tonight. Other than Park Manager Dave DeLorenzo’s monthly report, no specific discussion or action items are on the advance agenda.
Continue readingProgress continues on the Winamac Town Park’s new restrooms. Park Manager Dave DeLorenzo told the park board Thursday that the block work appears to be almost halfway done. “I think they’re going 10 rows high, and they probably have five or six rows on a majority of the two structures,” DeLorenzo said.
Continue readingConstruction is moving on the Winamac Town Park’s new restrooms. Park Manager Dave DeLorenzo gave an update to the town’s park board Thursday.
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