HistoricOmaha

The City of Omaha has recently announced that the playground area at Memorial Park is slated for renovation in 2006. The City expects to have the renovation project planned by late spring, bid in early summer, constructed in the fall, and finished before yearend. At a neighborhood meeting held on January 17, 2006, […]

Omaha World Herald
Published Thursday January 19, 2006
BY MAHALIA ASANAENYI
A veterans memorial. The avenue of flags. A manicured rose garden.
Porta-potties?
Memorial Park’s restroom could eventually be replaced with portable units, under a renovation project in the works for the midtown park.
The park is listed as one of 70 scheduled for improvements under the city’s Neighborhood Parks Renovation […]

I’m sorry the blog was temporarily unavailable. The host provider, Blogsome.com, upgraded its servers. The outage was planned, but I wan’t aware of it until I couldn’t post articles.

Omaha World Herald
Published Sunday January 15, 2006
BY CHRISTINE LAUE
We’ve seen the “final sale” ads, the cranes and bulldozers, the empty lots.
Change happens.
But lately much of it has been at Omaha landmarks - those uniquely Omaha places. Places where we’ve shared first dates, run weekly errands or driven past every day for years.
The original Caniglia’s restaurant […]

While on the subject of the City of Omaha’s website, there is a document Where to call for neighborhood problems.