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The Springfield Park District plans a pump track with big donation wtax.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtax.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
7 hours ago in Local Springfield Park Board members and others cut the ribbon as Douglas Park is now Duncan Park Photo: Saga Communications Exit Stephen Douglas, enter Otis Duncan as the namesake for one of Springfield’s best-known parks. Duncan was born in 1873. The son of a Springfield grocer, he went on to become one of the highest ranking African American officers in the military by the end of World War I. Colonel Duncan had descendants on hand for Tuesday’s ribbon cutting. Gale Lynn Borders’ great grandfather was Duncan’s first cousin. “I always heard stuff growing up about my family, and then, as the time went by, we started hearing more and more,” she said. ....
Springfield Park District opens new playground at historic Iles Park sj-r.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sj-r.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Springfield City Council passed an ordinance authorizing a development agreement with the Springfield Park District for improvements in parks in the Enos Park and Madison Park tax-increment financing districts during a special meeting Tuesday. The final adoption came with an amendment: The park district won t get money from the city until it makes improvements on the parks, and the money doled out will be on a project-by-project basis. The amendment further limited the park district to spending any leftover money on two parks Comer Cox and Chamberlain both in the Far East TIF District, which is contiguous to both the Enos Park and Madison Park Place TIF districts. ....