More Good Deeds: Pope Park Park

Pope Park Highway #4 not only has the oddest name of any street in Hartford, it continues to supply surprises. We first checked in on this bizzarre little road back in March when we found it in disgraceful condition from people dumping garbage there. Pretty disgusting stuff. A month later we noticed Pope Park Highway had been cleaned up and featured some before and after pics on our Spring Cleaning post. A few weeks ago we drove down Pope Park Highway and noticed some gravel had been put down and it looked like some grading was being done. "That's nice" we thought as we made a mental note to return and take some pictures. We finally returned yesterday and boy were we surprised.

Sad City Visits Keney Park Family Day

After visiting the Asian Festival on Saturday, Sad City went to Keney Park to check out the Family Day celebration. Family Day featured vendors, food, and music performers on a huge soundstage. The stars of the day though were the high school age kids who participated in some sort of dance/music competition (we missed it) earlier and then performed some impromptu drumming in the park. For those of us that couldn't master the recorder in the third grade, this was most impressive. Vids after the jump.

Park Clean-Up Week

Week of The Parks kicks off Monday August 23 and goes through August 28th. Volunteers are needed to help make this project as successful as possible. There are many interesting going ons in the local parks, so let's see just how clean we can get the parks what the result may be. Cleanups will be August 28. Call 860-951-7694 x14 or go to www.hartford.gov.

Hot Town, Garbage in the City

Nothing says "summer" quite like kids playing in a park sprinkler.

But is there anything that can be done about all of the trash? Today, we took a walk through our favorite patch of Asylum Hill greenery, Sigourney Square Park, and the place was covered in trash. We know that the city is faced with a slew of problems and greater priorities, but this starting to be a serious broken window.