Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thanks to a neighbor for scouring the Internet to find the City of Newport News fiscal year 2011 budget. City officials in Newport News have kept their vision for its citizens and tourists. They successfully run Newport News Golf Club at Deer Run. The fund breaks even as best as I can read this. CLICK on the images twice to enlarge.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thanks to a neighbor for scouring the Internet to find the City of Newport News fiscal year 2011 budget. City officials in Newport News have kept their vision for its citizens and tourists. They successfully run Newport News Golf Club at Deer Run. The fund breaks even as best as I can read this. CLICK [...]
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Neighbors want to call it “Victory” golf course – reminiscent of the Victory Stadium saga that consumed council elections for ten years. “It sure feels like another deterioration scheme,” said Susan Hall who lives on one of the fairways. The three-hour open house Tuesday at William Fleming High School was a chance for neighbors to [...]
Monday, August 30, 2010
A quick chronological recap of the Countryside Golf Course debacle that actually began as early as 2002 with a study conducted by The Lawrence Group. In October 2002 then city manager Darlene Burcham corresponds with Ed hall who advises her to make sure that the 40-year lease of the airport authority is not renewed (fairways [...]
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Every summer the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce hosts the Annual State of the City address. This year’s breakfast was again held Thursday at the Sheraton Roanoke Hotel and Conference Center on Hershberger Road. Mayor David Bowers looked back over his prior two years of speeches in preparing for 2010’s State of the City address. [...]
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
National Night Out is an event designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness while strengthening neighborhoods and fostering police-community partnerships. Neighborhoods all over Roanoke City hosted events Tuesday night by turning on their porch lights and dishing out full-blown all-you-can-eat buffets. Gruff the crime dog made his rounds followed by police and Fire/EMS crews [...]
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Friday, July 30, 2010
The pool served the children of the county before annexation brought them into the city in the early 70s. The parents and children of northwest city would gather at the pool on hot days in their usual neighborly communal fashion through the 80s and 90s. All that changed when the pool closed in 2003 and [...]
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Many of the area neighbors including myself have attended all the meetings with Planning Department Staff over the last several weeks. Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. at William Fleming is the last community input meeting. What to do with Countryside Golf Course is the topic. Monday evening’s meeting at the Miller Court neighborhood (Dan Hale [...]
Monday, June 28, 2010
On Friday June 25, The Roanoke Times editorial board proclaimed that Countryside is a lost cause. Writing about the recent news that the bid for the Market building renovation came in well under budget, the RT said, “There is no bad news — unless those hankering for the city to reopen Countryside Golf Course attempt [...]
Monday, June 21, 2010
Linwood Caldwell, 75 has been mowing around Countryside Golf Course for 55 years. Caldwell today began mowing the 12th fairway planning to bail the hay tomorrow morning barring any precipitation. He and his brother now deceased have worked the golf course property and the once airport property for hay to store in his barn. He [...]
Thursday, June 17, 2010
In January 2010 PFM Group consultants and advisers to the city on financial matters told city council the 10% self-imposed debt ceiling breach would lower the city’s bond rating. The Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) for 2011 included the issuance of bonds for renovation of the Market building $5,561,925 and repairs to Countryside Golf at $1.5 [...]
Thursday, June 3, 2010
In a phone call Tuesday from Chris Chittum Planning Administrator for the City of Roanoke he stated that there was nothing in the works for the golf course property. Chittum said he wanted to meet with the neighborhood to solicit input on what the adjoining property owners wanted. He also wanted to know anything [...]
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Just not giving up on free golf at Countryside. This man has a tough time finding his ball as the grass grows on the 12th fairway. If we just had a big enough mower the neighborhood would mow at least some of the fairways. Chris Whitley of WSLS channel 10 picked up on my post [...]
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Ken Saunders is in pain. Not only is he 70 years old but the one thing he loves is crumbling slowly before his very eyes. It is too much for him to bare so he is mowing as best he can the 11th fairway. Ken lives beside the 11th green and backs up to the 10th [...]
Sunday, April 11, 2010
My friend Newt and his brothers played one last round on Countryside Golf Course. Newt’s brothers even remember when it was a farm. They lived adjacent to the course growing up and my friend Newt was the head “golf ball hunter.” He knows every nook and cranny here. Whether you live here now or lived [...]
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