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New Budlong Pool: Cranston DPW sets public meeting on ways to recognize its history
The new Budlong Pool in Cranston will soon (but never soon enough) open (2025) with a tip of its hat to the past, to the work and workers of the WPA, to history, and to historic preservation. The Budlong Pool, located at 198 Aqueduct Road, off Reservoir Avenue is the city’s only outdoor public pool.…
Read MoreAfter community delays, meetings, Cranston’s new Budlong Pool plans 2025 opening. Summer plans.
Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins has announced an update on the Budlong Pool modernization as the city moves toward the receipt of formal bids to complete the planned upgrade and new pool experience for the community. Hopkins stated in the past week a pre-bid conference was held – at the site – with interested pool installers,…
Read MoreMayor Hopkins stays firm to reopen Budlong Pool, responds to “rebuke” of PAC, and City Councilor
Cranston’s partisan politics isn’t taking a break, even as the world explodes in concerns of World War, and people are fighting over religion and cultural divides. Cranston seems to be a microcosm of divide as any thought of compromise, working together, and agreeing to disagree has been lost – all over a dirty, mucky dead…
Read MoreMayor Hopkins steps out of partisan quagmire, moves forward to rebuild Cranston’s Budlong Pool
Photo, top: artist rendering, subject to changes After nearly more than 20 public meetings, Cranston Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins has announced that his administration is moving forward with final design and specifications to seek bids for the construction of a new Budlong Pool complex. “Following extensive review, considerations of options, public comments and community dialogue,…
Read MoreCranston’s Finance Committee says size matters for Budlong Pool – not “bells and whistles”
In another long meeting regarding the future of the Budlong Pool in Cranston, estimated to be the 19th or so, the City Council’s Finance Committee passed an amended resolution choosing size over features proposed by Mayor Hopkins and the aquatics professional’s proposed plan. The resolution was tweaked at last night’s meeting by Council Robert Ferri…
Read MoreBudlong Pool: Cranston plays political football while residents sweat out its future
(Updated) The renovation of the Budlong Pool was the subject of a special City Council meeting, one put together after Mayor Hopkins called for a public meeting to show newly designed plans to interested parties, and to take questions. He invited two aquatics specialists who have provided reports about the pool to also present. A…
Read MoreMayor Hopkins sets public meeting on Cranston Budlong Pool, releases report repairs not possible.
“I visited Budlong Pool, as large as two Olympic pools put together, some years after moving to Cranston from Newport. I had finally come to understand that swimming laps in the ocean would be harder and possibly less healthy here, and I have never liked the gym. I assumed I would develop a relationship with…
Read MorePool-a-palooza in Cranston. Mayor calls it sad, the constant bickering of Councilman, PAC advocates
“I am so disappointed in Bob Ferri’s incessant carping and unwillingness to be a collegial and participating member of the city council to seek common ground and pro-taxpayer solutions,” Hopkins said. “Ferri’s attacks are used to deflect and show his lack of understanding on financing capital projects like the Budlong Pool.” “Bob Ferri has aligned…
Read MoreCranston pool stuck in political mud – might not see opening in 2024
UPDATE: On May 2nd, the Cranston City Council approved the Mayor’s plan and a study will begin to get the reconstruction underway – after months’ delay, with any luck the pool will open in 2024. In a press release sent by Cranston Mayor Kenneth J. Hopkins, the mayor is issuing a warning that if plans…
Read MoreYes, the Cranston pool will reopen. No, it won’t be this summer. And it won’t be the same.
Cranston Budlong Pool to be repaired
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