{"id":528149,"date":"2026-01-19T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/528149\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:50:10","slug":"watertown-golf-course-fees-could-go-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/528149\/","title":{"rendered":"Watertown golf course fees could go up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; When the Watertown city council meets Tuesday night, the council will have before it a proposal to raise fees at the Thompson Park golf course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The golf course did better last year, its third year of being operated by the city, than it did in its first two years. Still, it lost $120,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the resolution, season passes would increase $25-$50, while greens fees increase $2-$3. That would put the price of an adult season pass at $825 for a city resident and $900 for someone living outside the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> For tournaments, carts will be provided for the first 80 players. Groups or organizations wishing to hold larger tournaments will be responsible for securing any additional carts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Council will also have before it a resolution to hire Harris Beach Murtha as the city attorney. That\u2019s after the city\u2019s current lawyer, Kristin Smith of Bond, Schoeneck &amp; King, notified the city she would be discontinuing her representation of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Harris Beach Murtha will charge the city between $225 and $350 an hour for lawyer services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The vote to hire Harris Beach is a turnabout from just two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2023\/09\/19\/bullard-out-watertown-city-attorney\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2023\/09\/19\/bullard-out-watertown-city-attorney\/\">when a divided council opted to end its relationship with the firm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; When the Watertown city council meets Tuesday night, the council will have before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":341519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5310,1430,12800,234341,62,183585,67,132,68,101971],"class_list":{"0":"post-528149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-golf-course","11":"tag-harris-beach","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-thompson-park","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-watertown"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115923505832088731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}