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November 4, 2009 Mike BurkeCumberland Times-News For better or for worse, Greenway Avenue Stadium's going to be a different edifice when we enter it for next year's Homecoming Game than it will be Saturday when we enter it for this year's Homecoming Game. The Board of Education, as you know, found $2.5 million of unused money in their books last May and has decided to use $2 million of it to "jump start" the renovation of the stadium. Once football season is over the renovation is scheduled to begin, with the concrete stands said to be the first to meet up with the wrecking ball so they can be replaced by next fall with a brick, steel and glass structure fronted by concrete pillars. Well, good luck wrecking ball. I think you're in for a bigger battle than you might believe, because I don't think the concrete stands, known since 1937 as the concrete side, are going to be in any hurry to leave. To read more, click here |
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