Recess is over: City pulls $700k in funding from children’s activities

  • The Boys Club at Teen Town has been closed by the city, which pulled $700,000 in recreation funding in order to help balance the general fund budget. The Girls Club has also closed. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)
    The Boys Club at Teen Town has been closed by the city, which pulled $700,000 in recreation funding in order to help balance the general fund budget. The Girls Club has also closed. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

    For nearly half a century, Lake City youth had a refuge at the Girls Club and Boys Club at Teen Town. 

    That all changed this spring, when the after-school and summer programs offered at the clubs …