Paducah pool efforts make big splash

  • BRINGING IT BACK Area volunteers and organizations are working throughout the Paducah community to revitalize its shuttered pool through grants, fundraising, donations, and public and private efforts. | COURTESY PHOTOS
    BRINGING IT BACK Area volunteers and organizations are working throughout the Paducah community to revitalize its shuttered pool through grants, fundraising, donations, and public and private efforts. | COURTESY PHOTOS
    The city of Paducah, like many other West Texas towns where kids learned to swim—and make friends and have fun—in their public pools for summers on end, by 2018 found its community pool far past its useful life. The massive 124-by-58-foot pool, built in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration and holding 330,000 gallons of water, was deteriorating and upkeep was expensive...

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