By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- The Massena Joint Recreation Commission has not shared any plans with the village to replace the Creative Playground on Danforth Place.

At Tuesday’s village board meeting, Trustee Tim Ahlfeld asked if there were any plans in the works to replace the playground that was torn down two years ago.

“I haven’t heard back from the recreation commission if they have any specific plan,” Mayor Tim Currier said.

He said he would like to see a “comprehensive plan” that replaces the creative playground and includes improvements at nearby Cullen Field, which Sacred Heart Church owns.

“I would hate to see that fall off the edge,” Ahlfeld said.

At the time the playground was torn down, recreation commission board director Dave MacClennan said he believed some form of playground would go there and his board was forming an ad hoc committee to explore the issue.

“Some form of playground will be replacing that, I’m sure. That’s the aim of the commission,” MacClennan said at the time.

On Thursday, MacClennan said the board still wants to find a replacement, but they need to get funding in place before they can make plans.

“We’re waiting for possibly, what the mayor might have … regarding grants,” MacClennan said. “It’s on the table. It hasn’t been taken off the table. It depends on the funding allocations.”

He said there has not been recent talk among the board about the playground.

There’s been “no discussion on the Creative Playground … to my knowledge,” the rec board chairman said.