Staff Writer
T-L Photo/KIM NORTH
MEMBERS OF the Lansing Sportsmens Club present a check for $388,000 to the Perkins Field Committee on Wednesday during a Bridgeport Exempted Village School District Board of Education meeting. The donation will be used for work on the fieldhouse, which will be called “Lansing Sportsmens Club Fieldhouse.” From left are club members Rick Burlenski, Dan Nameth and John Henthorne, along with Ryan Kreiter of the Perkins Field Committee.
BRIDGEPORT When decades of flooding forced demolition of the century-old wooden, covered grandstands at Bill Jobko Stadium in Brookside two years ago, groups came together in an effort to bring football back to the community.