Fire Station 4 at 2423 N. Delaware between the Doling and Robberson neighborhoods, was demolished March 26 to make way for a new station, which should be operational in about a year.
Author: Melissa Hart, Managing Editor
Construction for a half-mile Ozark Greenways trail connecting the area known as West Meadows, between Fort and Grant avenues north of the Birthplace of Route 66 Roadside Park, finished in fall 2020. The $405,000 project was funded with a $250,000 Recreation Trails grant from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources…
Dwayne Shmel was selected as the City’s new director of Building Development Services (BDS), effective Jan. 11. Shmel replaced Harlan Hill, who served in the role for about three years. Shmel, who has 25 years of national retail design, development and construction experience, came to Springfield from Bentonville, Arkansas, where…
West Central Neighborhood Alliance had a board election on the date this publication went to print (March 23). The new board members will be announced in the July edition of SGF Neighborhood News and on SGFNeighborhoodNews.com in West Central’s section. West Central now has a new website at WestCentralSpringfield.org. It…
The new Williams Elementary will be home to the newest Boys & Girls Club of Springfield, named for a Springfield family: The O’Reilly Unit. Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield announced that their capital campaign goal of $1.2 million has not only been reached, but exceeded. The campaign, Invest in Great…
The Delaware neighborhood has two small groups that meet each month – Tink and Frog Knitting Group and the Delaware Women’s Group. Both groups offer fun and social interaction, whether in person or virtually. “The knitting group was originally formed with myself, Pamela Hund and Marianne Jones,” said Jeff Brossard-Sims.…
At its Feb. 9 meeting, Springfield Public Schools’ board awarded a $1.7 million construction bid to DeWitt Construction. Due to the extent of renovations needed at Sunshine Elementary, this additional scope of work could not be accomplished in the original timeline, and will be completed prior to the 2021-22 school…
Becky Volz, President Steve Sexton, Vice President Kathleen Day, Secretary Jan Hutcherson, Treasurer Bernadean McAfee, at-large member Janetta Tracy, at-large member Jason Gish, at-large member Jolene Hall, at-large member Mona Pieron, at-large member Robert Baldwin, at-large member
The Missouri Job Center’s Green for Greene program – an Environmental Protection Agency grant-funded “green” job training program designed to train and secure well-paying environmental jobs for residents of under-resourced areas – is now accepting applications for its summer session, which will begin Aug. 16 with an application deadline of July…