Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Barnstable Post 206 American Legion members and spouses will spend Sunday afternoon enjoying a cookout at Elizabeth Lowell Park in hopes to attract new members and to enjoy watching the Post 206 American Legion Baseball Team.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Sean Walsh
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
If you're a veteran and enjoy baseball and having a hot dog or two, then you can't go wrong this Sunday in Cotuit. The Barnstable Post 206 American Legion membership will be on hand to watch the Post 206 American Legion baseball team while feasting on hot dogs and hamburgers courtesy of the Legion Post. The Barnstable Post 206 American Legion Baseball team will face Bridgewater Post 203 at 5:00 p.m. at Elizabeth Lowell Park, while the Legionnaires' cookout will start sometime around 4:00 pm along the third base side. Both the game and the cookout are free of charge for veterans. Post 206 is a partial sponsor of the baseball team that last season made the State South Sectionals for the first time in 25 years. This season, the baseball team …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Pristine Eldredge Park in downtown Orleans will be the site of the first-ever District 10 American Legion Baseball All-Star Game on Thursday, July 12 at 7:00 pm, as the state's top summer high school baseball stars will be showcased in front of fans.
For the first time in its 85-year history, District 10 American Legion Baseball will be showcasing its best and brightest stars in a one-evening all-star game on Thursday, July 12, 2012 at beautiful Eldredge Park in Orleans, Mass., home of the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League and the new home of Orleans Post 308, the newest addition to District 10 baseball. Yet it was the folks who run Barnstable Post 206 American Legion baseball who were tapped to organize and bring the event to fruition. Hyannis businessman John Hardy, owner of Compass Moving of Hyannis and Dennis, stepped up to the plate to become the all-star game's official corporate sponsor, thus the title "2012 Compass Moving District 10 All-Star Game." Hardy also …
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
It's been almost a decade since Barnstable Post 206 American Legion sold its longtime Phinney's Lane, Centerville headquarters and the building was razed, but today Legionnaires finally saw their stone and bronze monument relocated.
- LOCAL CONNECTIONS
- Sean Walsh
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
It's been a long time coming. For nearly a decade, the modest granite stone emblazoned with a 24" x 30" bronze plaque honoring our country's servicemen and women sat silent in the backyard junk-pile of the town's Department of Public Works on Route 28 in Hyannis. The stone finally has a new home. After countless meetings and years of phone calls and debate and haggling over what to do with the stone, Barnstable Post 206 American Legion completed construction of a new site adjacent to the Korean War Memorial in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Park on Ocean Street in Hyannis. The construction, which came in at about $1,000, was largely spearheaded by new Post 206 Commander Mort Sable who has been an American Legion member for decades since …
