With the elimination of the 200 southern garden plots to make way for ball fields, a significant gardening wait list was generated for the first time in recent memory. At the end of May gardeners who hadn't tended their plots or who had planted beyond their designated areas were notified and these areas were rented t...

During the Final week of May Naperville experienced considerable rainfall in a short period of time and June has become one of the wettest on record. The rain caused some standing water to remain in portions of the garden plots and wooded area at the west end of the north plots. In an effort to improve drainage in this area the Naperville Park D...

At the completion of the nearly two-year long Caroline Martin Mitchell process, the City Council directed staff to draft an operational agreement between the city and the “scouts”. Since the Boy and Girl Scouts of America use the property but do not operate it, the task fell upon the independent Von Oven Board of Direc...