MIDDLETOWN — Installation of a state-of-the-art playground at Smith Memorial Park, akin to the very popular playscape at Butternut Park across town, is nearly complete. Comprising 50 acres on ...

You get a party room (best for kids five and under) or porch (10 and under) and access to the charming 24,000-square-foot playhouse and six-and-a-half-acre playground in Fairmount Park.

Abbott Elementary’s students and teachers may have crowned the Smith Memorial Playground outing the best field trip ever, but the episode doesn’t quite live up to its predecessors. The ...