Article: Disc-golf course causes a dustup: The project in Bob White Park in Upper Merion has stalled while concerned neighbors have their say.(Upper Merion, Pennsylvania)

Byline: Bonnie L. Cook

Apr. 8--Two weeks before Christmas, Neil Beebee learned that he soon would be seeing Frisbees flying through the air a stone's throw from his backyard in Upper Merion's Bob White Farms development. Local players had persuaded the township to carve a $2,925 disc-golf course out of a brushy area in Bob White Park just over Beebee's fence. Though township supervisors voted to pay the bill, the public wasn't notified about the project. So when Beebee and his neighbors were invited to the Jan. 6 opening of the finished course, they threw a fit, starting a furor that has stalled the project and caused changes to township policy. "It ...

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