Just in time for its annual festival, the Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center welcomed a new playground with colorful equipment designed for children up to age 12 or so. Behind it, a surface has been freshly paved, large enough for the planned four pickleball courts and one tennis court.

Restoration of the previously removed basketball court will complete the core recreation area. But a walking trail looping almost all of the 13 -acre campus at its tree line is also planned.

Willow Hill Center leaders, three Bulloch County commissioners and Recreation & Parks Department members participated in a ribbon cutting Friday for the nonprofit center’s new, still unfinished outdoor recreation facilities, funded in part by a county grant. The 9 a.m. ceremony was the first event of this yea

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