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A rendering of the proposed new Crestwood Community Center. Renderings courtesy of the City of Crestwood.

Voters to weigh in on Crestwood’s $33M Proposition A this April

By Ellie Marshall, Staff Reporter January 22, 2024

The City of Crestwood held an informational town hall Jan. 18 at the city community center, 9245 Whitecliff Park Lane, featuring the mayor and all eight aldermen. Though anything relating to the city could...

The proposed site for the new Crestwood Community Center.

Crestwood voters will decide on bond for new community center in April

By Ellie Marshall, Staff Reporter January 12, 2024

Crestwood voters will weigh in on a $33 million bond measure in April that, if passed, will allow the city to issue several different bonds for different parks and recreation projects, most notably the...

Some of the classes held by the Crestwood Parks and Recreation Department at the Crestwood Community Center include children’s ballet classes. In a 2019 class, Sandy Book teaches cousins Caroline Kulik, left, and Audrey Flesch a relieve during
the preschool ballet, tap and jazz class.

Possible new Crestwood Community Center would require voter approval

By Ellie Marshall, Staff Reporter July 19, 2023

Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated where the construction site is for the new community center. The three proposed locations are the "sledding hill" and ballfield at Whitecliff Park...

The new glass wall installed at the Community Center.

Board of Aldermen start discussion on future of Crestwood Community Center

By Lucas Irizarry, Staff Reporter October 6, 2021

A special meeting was held Sept. 23 by the Crestwood Board of Aldermen to discuss the dilapidated community center and the prospect of building a new one. The current community center, at 9245 Whitecliff...

The new glass wall installed at the Community Center.

Community Center gets a new glass wall

July 15, 2020

The movable walls in rooms 106 and 107 at the Crestwood Community Center were replaced with a permanent glass wall after the Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance to move forward with purchasing the...

The pool at the Crestwood Aquatic Centers lazy river and slide, as seen in a photo from Westport Pools.

Crestwood Parks and Recreation announces COVID reopening plan

June 23, 2020

Crestwood will begin the process of reopening its parks and recreation facilities, including the Community Center, the city announced Monday.  Beginning July 1, the Parks and Recreation Department...

City agrees to pay for stage to allow Whitecliff Playhouse to stay in park

City agrees to pay for stage to allow Whitecliff Playhouse to stay in park

May 17, 2018

Photo courtesy of the Playhouse Productions Facebook page. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The show will go on at Whitecliff Summer Playhouse for the foreseeable future. Playhouse...

Children line up for the Crestwood Easter Egg Scramble in 2018.

Rain can’t stop the Crestwood Easter Egg Scramble

April 6, 2018

Photos by Bill Milligan. Children lined up for the annual Easter Egg Scramble at the Crestwood Community Center Saturday, eager to find their eggs despite bad weather forcing the event inside instead...

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