
Posts tagged with Department of Parks & Recreation


Looks like Philly public pools will be back this summer

Philly’s new mobile testing truck is designed to contain COVID clusters with rapid response
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Nearly 30% of Philly’s remote learning centers have closed for COVID. Staff are raising safety concerns.

Parks and Rec is reopening some fields usually locked for winter so people have more outdoor options

Trailer truck sliced open on Kelly Drive shouldn’t have been there anyway

Fairmount Park gets a drive-in showing free movies outside the Mann

Basketball, fountains, snacks: Slowly and safely, Philly parks reopen for summer fun

Philly public pools will not open this summer, because of budget cuts — and virus worries

Map: Where Philly removed basketball hoops to discourage group games

City Council to hold hearings on potential ‘dizziness, headache, nausea and impairment’ caused by Mosquito devices

Teen-repelling ‘Mosquito’ devices to stay in Philly public parks indefinitely

This North Philly rec center shut down under Mayor Nutter. Neighbors finally got it reopened.

Art Museum’s ‘Oval’ to become permanent park, many other Philly public spaces advance

How hungry Philly kids can get free lunch over winter break

Run the Fairmount Park trail Joe Frazier made famous

Why the FDR Park golf course is going away forever

Memories from a Fishtown public pool that disappeared 50 years ago

Mosquito devices ‘on pause’ in Philadelphia as Parks & Rec plans audit
