Tonawanda, N.Y. (WBEN) – State Assemblyman Bill Conrad was in the City of Tonawanda on Tuesday, joined by officials and students from the Tonawanda City School District to celebrate the announcement of $500,000 in state funding for upgrades for facilities at the district’s middle/high school.
The grant first covered the resurfacing of six outdoor hard-surface tennis courts and two pickleball courts on the Fletcher Street campus. The work refurbished the aging courts and brought them back to optimal condition, but it allowed for re-striping of one of them, for use in the smaller-scale sport of pickleball.
The new courts will be open at set times for public use, and they will also facilitate pickleball instruction in students’ physical education classes…