Kennedy Park segment of Wolf River Greenway opens

By , Daily Memphian Updated: October 04, 2018 6:35 AM CT | Published: October 03, 2018 12:11 PM CT
<strong>Gene Carkeet (right), Joe Royer (left) and others exit the Wolf River Greenway into Kennedy Park after the ribbon cutting Wednesday, Oct. 3, of the Kennedy Park section of the greenway. The newest section of the greenway snakes through Wolf River wetlands adjacent to Kennedy Park.</strong> (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)

Gene Carkeet (right), Joe Royer (left) and others exit the Wolf River Greenway into Kennedy Park after the ribbon cutting Wednesday, Oct. 3, of the Kennedy Park section of the greenway. The newest section of the greenway snakes through Wolf River wetlands adjacent to Kennedy Park. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)

Most Memphians who use Kennedy Park know it primarily for its softball and baseball fields. That changed Wednesday, Oct. 3, as the latest stretch of the Wolf River Greenway opened where an almost impenetrable combination of undergrowth and dredge material once hid the Wolf River there.

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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