Town removes yellow rose bushes from Bicentennial Park

If you've been to Bicentennial Park lately, you may have noticed a lack of greenery.

Last week, the town maintenance crew removed the majority of the rose bushes lining the South end of the park next to the playground.

"Safety and maintenance," were listed by Fred Crosby, Assistant to the Mayor, as the primary reasons for removing a large section of the rose bushes.

He mentioned that the rose bushes collected trash, have had to be trimmed regularly to keep them from encroaching into the children's play area, and that, generally speaking, thorny bushes were not a good plant to have next to a designated play area.

Within the next couple months the town will replace the rose bush row with a low-maintenance fence to block the alley.

Some rose bushes have been left on the West end of the row and the bushes that were removed have been saved at the Town Shop for the community to pick up for free and start in their own yards.