School and community athletes celebrate the renovation of Memorial Field.
After a decade of continuous preparation and planning, Mamaroneck High School's Memorial Field will finally begin renovation this year. To celebrate the expansion of a new multi-sport turf field, the Mamaroneck School District held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday afternoon. The MHS Memorial Field Project 2010 was an ambitious fundraising effort between local officials, Fields for Kids, and youth sports leagues who understood the importance of the recreational turf for years to come. Although it was a long road to eventually reach the groundbreaking celebration, the school was fortunate enough to have support from across the community. Assemblyman George Latimer secured a $250,000 grant for the fund which went towards the prior $500,000 …
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The Mamaroneck Public Library is making friends with the environment.
There are many green things about Mamaroneck—its long list of parks, its proximity to the Long Island sound, and its recycling regulations, to name a few. And in about a year, the Village of Mamaroneck will have one more green thing to be proud of: Its library. The Mamaroneck Public Library's renovation project is old news to most residents, but the lengths it will go to befriend the environment is a different story. The renovation, which began in October 2008, is sticking to numerous standards for environmentally sustainable construction and aiming to receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating (a silver one) at the end of the project. LEED, a green building rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building …
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