Community Effort Brings Return of Middleburgh Ice Rink

MIDDLEBURGH - An effort between the Village and the Middleburgh Fire Department re-opened a skating rink that has been closed for 10 years. After seals on the community skating rink in Bagley Park would not hold water, the rink has lied vacant. Trustee William Morton of the Village Board suggested filling the rink in stages rather than all at once to take a firm hold. Mayor Matthew Avitabile arranged the Department of Public Works crew under Superintendent Dale Nunamann to clean snow out of the rink early last week and for the Fire Department to place the initial ice glaze.

With the warm, then cold temperatures yesterday the plan worked and the rink is open today for the first time since 2003.