Senator Girgenti in the News
HERALD NEWS: Work begins on Roe Street Field
October 06, 2007
By HEATHER KAYS
HERALD NEWS
HALEDON — A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Saturday for renovations to the Roe Street field.
“It’s going to be pretty low key but it’s a big deal for the town since it’s our one and only park and field,” Mayor Domenick Stampone said Friday. “We’re very excited.”
For years borough officials have been trying to renovate the more than 60-year-old field, but it has never undergone extensive refurbishing. The 4.5-acre field is used for sports and recreation. After obtaining about $680,000 in state and county grants and applying for an additional $350,000, officials are finally able to move ahead with the project, which they hope will be completed by November.
“The whole project is scheduled to wrap up by Thanksgiving,” Stampone said.
Sen. John A. Girgenti, D-Hawthorne, Assemblywoman Nellie Pou, D-Paterson, county freeholders and officials from Haledon and the neighboring communities were invited to attend the ceremony to be held at noon at Roe Street and North 15th Street near the veterans monument.
This ceremony is more of a formality since work began on the field two weeks ago. The contract to do the renovations was awarded to Applied Landscape Technologies Inc. in Montville.
The project, which is expected to cost about $1 million, will include a new Little League field, a baseball field with dugouts, a soccer field, security fences, new irrigation system and a walking path to be built near the veterans field and Sept. 11 monuments.
Additional amenities have been put on hold because of lack of funds said Grace Lynch, principal of L+C Design of Secaucus, which handled the redesign of the field.
“We hope to have the money to put in the band shell for concerts,” Lynch said. “Even though it was in the contract, it has not been awarded yet due to budgetary restraints. There are some other, mostly architectural things, like roofs over dugouts that we would also like to get to.”
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