Video: Light Up Monroe winners announced
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MONROE, CT — Dan Keene, president of the Monroe Playground Foundation, recently released the 2022 Holiday Spectacular, a video he produced announcing winners of the annual Light Up Monroe contest. Read More
The Wolfe’s Den: ‘This is a great place to spend the summer’
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MONROE, CT — Steve Winkel pushed the merry-go-round, spinning his giggling six-year-old daughter Sophie and a boy she was playing with at The Wolfe’s Den Playground at Wolfe Park Friday morning. Read More
‘It is blood, sweat and tears and the community pulls through’
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MONROE, CT — Whirring sounds of drills and circular saws filled the air Sunday, as an army of volunteers swarmed the construction site for The Wolfe’s Den playground, climbing ladders, using cement mixers and assembling components, all in a final flurry to finish the project on day six, the last day of the community build. Read More
Volunteers entertain kids as parents build The Wolfe’s Den
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MONROE, CT — Children made colorful chalk drawings under a tent, mobbed Denny, the wolfe mascot, and took nature walks along the scenic trail at Wolfe Park Sunday afternoon. Read More
Day 3: The Wolfe’s Den playground is emerging on a massive scale
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MONROE, CT — A network of ramps on the construction site at Wolfe Park shows the Monroe Playground Foundation’s commitment to building a playground that’s inclusive for children of all abilities. Read More
Day 2: More volunteers needed to make The Wolfe’s Den a reality
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MONROE, CT — Posts for The Wolfe’s Den Playground jutted out of the ground on the construction site at Wolfe Park early Wednesday evening, a sure sign of progress. Read More
Day 1: Volunteers build frames, install posts for The Wolfe’s Den Playground
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MONROE, CT — Amanda Bean and other women worked at a check-in table at Wolfe Park Tuesday, signing-in volunteers, giving them a T-shirt and assigning them to teams for the community build of The Wolfe’s Den Playground. Read More
‘Every time we put out a call for help, Monroe steps up.’
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MONROE, CT — Build week for The Wolfe’s Den, a new playground replacing Kids Kreations at Wolfe Park, was still over a week away Sunday morning, when volunteers used shovels, wheel barrows and heavier duty construction equipment to literally lay the groundwork for the project. Read More
A ‘Bovine Bonanza’! Time capsule contained drawings, photos …
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This story is dedicated to the memory of late Kids Kreations Playground building committee members Carol Wright and Bill Reilly.
MONROE, CT — A crowd surrounded a time capsule on the floor inside Town Hall’s Council Chambers Tuesday evening. Read More
Time capsule buried at Wolfe Park for 30 years to be opened March 29
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MONROE, CT – A worker using a backhoe to take down the old, wooden Kids Kreations Playground at Wolfe Park, to make way for The Wolfe’s Den playground, uncovered a time capsule buried by children and families when Kids Kreations was built in 1992. Read More