Last week, I wrote a story about the bleachers at the East Side Rec, on the field formerly used by the Blue Streaks.

The story had a big question mark in it, in the form of a missing comment from schools Superintendent Janice White. Apparently, White was at a conference and not available. Upon her return, we learned that the district will discuss, at the next school board meeting, spending $12,000 to dismantle the old bleachers. Refurbishing them would have cost $60,000 to $70,000.

The plan will hinge on a school board vote. We have not yet been able to confirm the bleacher's history, but most anecdotal evidence we've heard points to origins as "blacks-only" bleachers at the race course or harness track. Although they are historic -- in the sense that they've been around for a while -- it seems that the school board is making an economically responsible decision. Of course, we don't yet know hat plans there might be to replace the bleachers -- or why it took more than a year to make a decision on them, following their condemnation.