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Newark girls softball league asks council to help keep 50‑year home amid school closure
Summary
Board member Andrew Patrick told the council the Newark Girls Softball League has used Snow Elementary fields for five decades and was recently told the closed site is no longer available; the city manager and staff promised short‑ and long‑term coordination with the school district and a Sept. 24 meeting to seek shared-field solutions.
Andrew Patrick, board member of the Newark Girls Softball League, told the council that NGSL has maintained and improved Snow Elementary’s softball complex over five decades but that Snow — closed two years ago — is now locked and “no longer available” to the league. He said NGSL was given a proposal that would cost roughly $500,000 to build two new fields at Lincoln Elementary and characterized that plan as infeasible for…
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