Bill Kirby Jr.: 'He became mayor and began tearing down the bars'
Johnny Dawkins wanted just a moment before Mayor Mitch Colvin would call on this municipal body of city governance to name the mammoth baseball stadium’s plaza just across the street for John W. “Bill” Hurley, the late mayor who nearly 40 years ago championed the way to change the face of a dying downtown.Just a moment to look out into the faces of Bill Hurley’s widow and three sons and grandchildren, and to tell them just what Bill Hurley meant to not only this city, […]
