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 [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Mike Callahan of Boones Mill, VA was the overall winner in the Roanoke Valley Senior Golf Tour’s August tournament held this past weekend at London Downs Golf Course in Lynchburg, VA.. Playing in Division 3, (handicap 21 and over), Callahan scored a net 63. Other net winners: In Division 3 were: 2nd place – Emory [...]
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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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 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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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Roanoke city is mowing 50 feet out from the out-of-bounds markers on the 140 acres of what once was a treasured golf course. Just how much the city has spent on boarding up the clubhouse, making “no trespassing” signs, placing concrete barriers, taking down the range netting and repairing the sinkhole is anybody’s guess. It [...]
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Monday, April 5, 2010
On Easter 2010 just a little over one month after Roanoke City suddenly shutdown the golf course signs of neglect are “sprouting” up like … well … weeds …. pun intended! As my neighbor and I sat and watched golfer after golfer come through on the 11th fairway we thought we should charge a 11th fairway membership [...]
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
They thought he would be different. New city manager Chris Morrill met with two dozen neighbors and golfers at the blocked entrance to Countryside Golf Club Wednesday evening. Assistant manager Brian Townsend and Ken Cronin General Services and Sustainability Director were Morrill’s support team. The evening was a heart-wrenching experience for the Northwest neighborhood. The [...]
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Stopping by to get a few free golf shots on Countryside’s 12th fairway was Blake Medding a Southeast resident who lives a stones throw from the Mayor’s home. Medding had a lot to say about the history of Countryside as he hit some balls he claimed would surely be birdies. Medding said he wouldn’t mind [...]
