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The global pandemic and a neighborhood park show government as big and as little as necessary.
Donald Cohen| January 12, 2024
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The 20-acre Lockwood Folly District Park, at the corner of Green Swamp and Grey Water roads in Supply, North Carolina, has three baseball fields, a field for football or soccer, two tennis courts, a basketball court, three picnic shelters, and a playground. Thanks to funds from the American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA), it now also has $107,000 for repairs and upgrades. It’s one of six parks in North Carolina’s Brunswick County splitting $2 million for improvements, part of the $27.7 million allocated to the county. All the parks receiving money are located within or serve U.S. Census-Bureau-identified Qualified Census Tracts, in which at least half of the households live off an annual income before 60 percent of the area’s median income.
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