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James Wilson prepares to return a serve Sunday at the rebuilt courts.
Patrick McGovern back at play.
The pop of tennis racket returns can be heard again in Edgewood Park — along with a briny new variation.
Tennis players returned to the courts there this weekend now that the city has pretty much completed a $625,000 upgrade of the popular facility. (Click here to read a previous story about the upgrades.)
New pickleball courts.
The redesigned area include a set of three smaller courts for the ever-more-popular badminton-tennis-ping-pong mash-up game known as pickleball.
The city is holding off on a formal announcement until the completion of a few final touches, according to City Engineer Giovanni Zinn: activation of a new lighting system, installation of a push-button bollard to activate lights.
Meanwhile, a former soccer field lay silent, and overgrown, in another stretch of the park, by the West River at Chapel Street. Due to the shift in the water table in that area, the field has become too wet to put mowing and other equipment on it with any reliability, so the the city has shifted practices and games from there to other fields to allow for more predictable play, reported mayoral spokesperson Len Speiller. Meanwhile, on many days it remains an idyllic hiking spot.
