Changes Coming To Mccarthy Park In 2025
 | Author:
Linda Kent, MT43 News Staff Reporter
MT43 News Correspondent |
Changes Coming to Mccarthy Park in 2025
Linda Kent
MT43 News Staff Reporter
Townsend’s McCarthy Park’s playground will receive a facelift next spring in the form of new swings and play equipment, thanks to Boy Scout Noah Borrer. Townsend’s City Council approved Borrer’s proposal to replace swings and add equipment at their regular December 3 meeting.
Borrer, assisted by Stacy Sommer of the Cook Mansion and Helena’s Playable Playgrounds, told the council the equipment can be ordered and ready to install when the ground thaws this coming spring. He presented three options for the council’s approval based on council members’ feedback from their November 5 meeting. At that time, concerns about ensuring that the new equipment layout would be in relation to the park’s sprinkler system as well as concerns for children’s safety prompted members to table approval of the equipment installation until Borrer and Sommer could provide maps.
John Bleile of Townsend’s Youth Baseball Association also spoke of changes his group is in the process of finalizing at McCarthy Park in anticipation of the first season of Broadwater High School’s first season this spring. While Bleile had asked the council on November 5 for approval to extend the central baseball field at the park as well as install a second equipment shed, he returned to let the council know that no field extension would be needed. The group still intends to add a second, 12-by-24-foot equipment shed, if the council approves.
Council members approved both requests.
Bleile added that his group could provide netting to prevent foul balls from entering the revamped play area if safety continued to be a concern.
