Lowell Park to Get Facelift Starting Next Week
The pride of the Cape Cod Baseball League and its 15-time champion Cotuit Kettleers for over seven decades, Elizabeth Lowell Park on Lowell Avenue in Cotuit will be getting new restroom facilities starting next week... and that's just the beginning.
Baseball players and fans from across the country already agree on one thing for certain: there are few places like Lowell Park in Cotuit and even fewer where a window to the past seems frozen in time. Still, there's always room for improvement, according to the park's de facto caretaker since 1947, the Cotuit Athletic Association. At its past few monthly meetings, the Cotuit Athletic Association board of directors, the parent organization of the 15-time Cape Cod Baseball League champion Cotuit Kettleers, has been crunching numbers, pouring over fiscal 2013 budget numbers and rattling its fundraising drums to come up with a hopeful $900,000-plus to renovate nearly all aspects of current Lowell Park facilities. With approximately $129,000 …