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adminThis critically thinking News Dog thinks a change in paradigms is highly necessary in how the City deals with the ongoing and growing issue of homeless camps on public land.…
adminOn this week’s episode of the Northeast Newscast, we’re joined by Alejandra Perez, Board of Kansas City Parks and Recreation Commissioner and Scholarship Program Director for the Hispanic Development Fund…
adminBy Abby Hoover The Paseo Gateway Initiative has been in the works since January 2016 when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) executed a five-year Choice Neighborhoods…
adminThis week’s historic postcard focuses on the John F. Kennedy Memorial located in the Colonnade in Concourse Park at the intersection of St. John Avenue and Gladstone and Benton boulevards.…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain After vandals torched one of the wooden picnic shelters in Budd Park in May 2016, park users were left with only one usable shelter house. At the…
adminForest Decker has been appointed Director of the Neighborhood Services Department, accepting the mission to implement a new vision for the department to focus on enhancing services that improve the…
adminOn Thursday, Oct. 14, Kansas City Park Board President Jack Holland announced the hiring of Chris Cotten as the new KC Parks director. The Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners…
adminIn partnership with Kansas City Museum as they prepare to reopen this fall, we’re interviewing those who have been part of the museum’s journey. This week, publisher Michael Bushnell catches…
The Kansas City, Mo., Parks and Recreation Board of Commissioners voted at its June 22 meeting to appoint Deputy Director Roosevelt Lyons as the Interim KC Parks Director. A national search is underway…
adminKansas City Parks and Recreation Director Terry Rynard announced her plan to retire in a letter included in the June 10 KC Parks newsletter. “It is with mixed emotions I…
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