Tiger Den Playground Future on Monday’s Lock Haven Council Agenda

LOCK HAVEN – The Keystone Central School Board voted last Thursday to close down Dickey Elementary School at the end of the school year and Lock Haven City Council this Monday will consider a request to return the school’s “Tiger Den” playground to the city.

The Monday council agenda, under new business, calls for council consideration “to request that Keystone Central School District return Kistler Park ‘The Tiger Den’ to the city upon the closure of Dickey Elementary School.”

The park off W. Bald Eagle Street had been closed by the school district in recent years to public use, other than for Dickey students during the school day. That changed in July of last year when the city and the school district announced the park was reopening to the public. Lock Haven Mayor Joel Long, a Tiger Den developer, had been involved in the process to get the park reopened for public use last summer.

The park was locked up this weekend. Young people were seen using the nearby Hoberman Park which is not enclosed.

The Monday city council meeting is set for 7 p.m. at City Hall. Due to concern about the corona virus, city officials said members of the public without comments are, rather than attending, “encouraged to watch the meetings live” through the city’s streaming service; comments also can be submitted by email, according to a post on the city’s website.