{"id":37863,"date":"2026-07-24T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=37863"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:18:30","slug":"pool-season-extended-weekends-eyed-at-decatur-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/pool-season-extended-weekends-eyed-at-decatur-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Pool season extended; weekends eyed at Decatur pool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decatur&#8217;s city swimming pool has had more than its share of problems in recent weeks, so it has been decided to extend the pool&#8217;s season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parks Superintendent Cara Gerber announced at city council&#8217;s latest meeting that the pool&#8217;s closing day will be Tuesday, August 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Adams students return to classes the next day, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=640%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C267&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=300%2C78&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=768%2C200&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C401&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, Gerber said, \u201cWe&#8217;re going to try (opening) weekends until Sept. 9,\u201d noting that attendance would be a determining factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CARDBOARD BOATS: Cardboard boat races will be held at the pool on Sunday, August 9, 5:30 to 6 p.m., with a start time around 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boaters will be vying for seven awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further details and to register, call (724) 2520.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Decatur&#8217;s city swimming pool has had more than its share of problems in recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14,15],"class_list":["post-37863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur","tag-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-No.-3.jpg?fit=526%2C237&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37864,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37863\/revisions\/37864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}