Cleveland Metroparks restoring scenic Garfield Park Pond, a popular early 20th-century attraction

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — Cleveland Metroparks has turned its Garfield Park Reservation into a giant sandbox this summer, but the object isn’t child’s play.

The regional parks agency is spending $7 million to recreate a popular one-time fishing and boating pond that filled with silt in the late 1950s and later became choked with invasive weeds and trees.

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