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The future of Rolling Meadows\u2019 Kiddie Park remains uncertain as Lebanon officials choose between maintaining the aging playground and converting it to grass.<\/p>\n

Residents of the Rolling Meadows subdivision have reportedly been contacting city officials since August 2024 about the deteriorating condition of the city-owned park, and they\u2019re asking for restoration rather than removal.<\/p>\n

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Ella Howell is a reporter at The Lebanon Reporter. Email her at ella.howell@reporter.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of Rolling Meadows\u2019 Kiddie Park remains uncertain as Lebanon officials choose between maintaining the aging playground…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[2256,58595,11192,93,9309,58596,20629,58594],"class_list":["post-198059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-child","tag-homeowner-association","tag-illinois","tag-lebanon","tag-park","tag-parks","tag-playground","tag-rolling-meadows"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116889688797414242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}