There are 3 article(s) tagged Martyrs Park:

• April 2023

  • Tyre Nichols honored with sunset lantern release

    Twenty-nine paper lanterns alighted over the Mississippi River around the 7:30 p.m. sunset representing each year of Nichols’ life.

    By Alicia Davidson April 10, 2023

• October 2021

  • Video shows mystery chainsaw crew at Martyrs Park

    Surveillance video shows a five-man crew with chainsaws and other equipment in Martyrs Park on March 10. That’s the day that a 200-yard-wide swath of trees were cut — without permission — from the public riverbank.

    By Tom Bailey October 08, 2021

• April 2021

  • 200 yards of trees below Martyrs Park cut without permission, official says

    On a Wednesday afternoon, March 10, someone without permission cut down scores of trees on the publicly owned Mississippi River bank below Martyrs Park, a parks official says.

    By Tom Bailey April 22, 2021