City Parks director says parks seeing ‘renaissance’ in pandemic
Tammie Echols and her son Torrence Echols, 8, walk past the barricaded entrance to Overton Park on April 4, as Memphians practice social distancing during workouts, dog walks and bike rides. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Nick Walker, who recently went from interim to permanent director of the city’s division of parks and neighborhoods, talked about the change and the move to a parks master plan on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast.
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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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