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Lowell parks board puts converted Roland Mambo Field on hold, seeks family and department review
Summary
Board members paused formal approval after finding a Little League diamond had been converted to a softball layout without prior board notification and asked staff to investigate and contact the family for whom the field is named.
The Lowell City Parks & Recreation board voted to put on hold formal approval of a recent conversion of the Roland Mambo field from a Little League layout to a softball configuration and asked staff to investigate how the change occurred and to check whether the Mambo family objects.
The change, board members said, appeared to have been completed earlier this year without prior notice to the parks board. Several commissioners argued the board should have been consulted before the field’s layout was altered because the field carries a commemorative name and because the two field types have different safety and play characteristics.
Commissioner Tom said the…
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