As I sit here and write this last bit for the October issue you hold in your hands, it is the first day of fall, and it's feeling quite autumnal here in the Chicago area. Cool and breezy, with the changing leaves not quite near their peak.

When this YMCA wanted to boost its energy efficiency, it turned to energy-efficiency-as-a-service to get the job done efficiently, and with no upfront investment in fixture and HVAC upgrades.

In Brookhaven, Ga., a park’s public-private partnership brings high-level tennis instruction to the community. And with a new lighting upgrade, it does so even more efficiently and effectively.

A pal of mine calls the crickets and locusts "school bugs," and sure enough, you can count on a crescendo of their nightly symphony right around the same time that you start getting ready to go back to school.

Nine out of 10 people believe that litter is a problem in their states—unsurprising given that there are 50 billion pieces of litter on the ground along U.S. roadways and waterways alone, according to The Keep America Beautiful 2020 National Litter Study.

When you're managing a recreation, sports, fitness or aquatics facility, problems are bound to arise. Bears in your campground, out-of-whack pool chemistry, poorly lit sports fields—you never know what will get added to your must-do list next.

In our 14th Annual Salary Survey, we track the careers, experience and salaries of nearly 1,400 survey respondents, covering everything from education and certification to job satisfaction, raises and more.

By the time you're reading this, the 4th of July and its associated events will likely have passed. How was it where you are? Around here, it looks like a very mixed bag, with some events proceeding as normal, some new events added, and some events canceled.

This month, we'd like to spotlight an industry that was extremely hard-hit by the global pandemic: fitness.

By the time you're reading this, our 15th annual State of the Industry Report, much of the country will be reopened and on a (hopefully) rapid road back to business as usual. As I write this, states are gradually reducing or removing their restrictions.