Gilford Selectboard approves upgrading ice rink, looks to add pickleball court

GILFORD — The town ice rink will be getting new side boards this winter, the next stage of a project to transform a facility seldomly used into one that will add pickleball courts, in an effort to see use throughout the year.

“The beauty of this project is that we are taking a facility that was used maybe 10 to 20 days a year as an ice rink, and I think it will now be used year-round once the pickleball courts are in there,” Town Administrator Scott Dunn said. “One of the conditions of the Land and Water Conservation Fund grant is that it is free and open to the public.”

The Gilford Selectboard voted 3-0 on Oct. 22, to accept a proposal from $137,786.76 from Sport Court Northeast, a company from North Andover, Massachusetts, with 30 years of experience in designing, installing and mainta