Wooden Sled Runs to Return to Park ; Reopening of Toboggan Chutes Will Bring Back Memories, Make New Ones

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Word quickly spread this week at Chestnut Ridge Park that the long-idle toboggan chutes are scheduled to reopen next week, bringing huge grins to grown-ups who recalled careening down the hill as a child, clutching onto a sister, brother, friend or cousin for dear life.

"It was the wildest experience when you were a little kid," said Ken Schroeder, 40, whose parents would bring him, his three siblings and two neighbors out to Chestnut Ridge from their Cheektowaga neighborhood at least twice a winter. "You'd get down to the end of the hill, and snow would be flying up at your face."

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Wooden Sled Runs to Return to Park ; Reopening of Toboggan Chutes Will Bring Back Memories, Make New Ones

He brought his fiancee's children, Joshua and Helen Toledo, and three neighborhood kids out sledding on Thursday for what he said was an annual trek to th...

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