The new playground and public recreation area at Bridgeport Exempted Village School District is coming together and district administrators are seeking grant funding for some new equipment. Superintendent Brent Ripley once more invited some of Bridgeport Elementary’s students to share their wish lists.

Work on the grant-funded education, training, health and community center to be dubbed “The Bridge” is continuing through the school year, with underlying infrastructure in place and the facility’s footprint taking shape in front of the elementary school.

This project has also meant moving the playground. Planners have decided on a location beside the administrative building along National Road. Slides and other equipment have been set up and a sidewalk and basketball court poured.

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