Here is a recap of what was featured in the Wednesday, Feb. 22, e-edition of the Taylor Press. The e-edition is emailed to subscribers and available at www. taylorpress.net.
PERCUSSION PARK OFFICIALLY OPENS
Last Saturday, a ribbon cutting was held to officially open Percussion Park in Taylor. The playground is located in Murphy Park between the lake and the swimming pool. Taylor Parks and Recreation Superintendent Tyler Bybee said Percussion Park is the first all inclusive, accessible playground in the city.
The concept for the playground was originally brought to the city by Good Life Taylor, an organization founded in 2012 to promote healthy families and outdoor activities. The playground was created in the shape of a musical treble clef and features an ensemble of functioning musical playground pieces.
The idea was to create a vibrant, creative, musical space within the city’s parks system where people of all ages can gather, create music and enjoy the outdoors.
TISD BOARD LAUDS UNSTACKING ROLLOUT
As the Taylor Independent School District moves forward with “unstacking” plans for the elementary schools next fall, parents and other community members seem to be taking the upcoming seismic shift in stride, officials said during the Feb. 20th meeting of the board of trustees.
The long-anticipated plan will transform Main Street Intermediate and Naomi Pasemann Elementary schools into first through fourth grade campuses and keep Pre-K and Kindergarten at TH Johnson Elementary School.
UT ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS SHARE VISIONS FOR WELLNESS CENTER IN MURPHY PARK Though currently just in the idea phase, key players in Taylor are interested in seeing a health and wellness center come together for that area, including the empty field at the corner of west Lake Drive and Davis Street, and they are meeting with students several times over the course of the semester to provide feedback.
Good Life Taylor, which had originally come up with the idea for a fitness park around the track at Memorial Field, brought in John McRae, a former dean of the architecture schools of both the University of Tennessee and Mississippi State University, into the planning and is putting fundraising on hold to see what the young people come up with first.
