Dear Friends,
A brief but link-packed mid-winter update:
1. Construction has begun on the fields! Woohoo! It’s been detailed in our local news, complete with aerial pictures, so linking directly to that: https://figcitynews.com/2025/01/construction-begins-on-renovation-of-north-side-of-albemarle-field
We’ve heard questions about the mature trees, especially those magnificent oaks – we all love them, and the designs fully accommodate them, just so you know.
Early efforts focus on stormwater filtration and management. Speaking of….
2. …There is a meeting THIS Tuesday that you might be interested in attending, and so sorry for the short notice – it was short for us too, and I can’t make it. But I hope you can.
Tuesday 1/21 at 6:30pm at the Ed Center and also on zoom – Stormwater Solutions Coming to Cheesecake Brook.See details here and register at crwa.org.
3. Albemarle looks so pretty in the snow. File under views. 🙂
4. Back-in Parking STILL WORKS and is a MAJOR SUCCESS…in case you were wondering! Everyone is doing it, from the weekend playground parent crew to the sporadic cybertruck. There is much less honking, fewer near misses and a FAR safer environment. Thanks Newton City Council, the Mayor, DPW and everyone!
5. Thank you for —or, as appropriate, I encourage you to join us in–continually pulling plastic out of Cheesecake Brook – it’s an easy way to keep plastic out of our oceans, as a tributary of the river. This inspiring young lady was cleaning up plastic even before it rolled into the brook!
Thankful for this community. Happy Martin Luther King Day!
Cedar
Cedar Pruitt
President, Friends of Albemarle
Newton, MA
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