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Plans for a 40,000-square-foot sports complex at a vacant recycling plant in Stratford, CT on Honesypot Road, which will be the town's largest indoor athletics facility, have won unanimous approval from the Zoning Commission.

It's one of those weekends that college athletic department staffs dread. Thirteen basketball games in 53 hours, 26 teams playing in Paul Gerry Fieldhouse, scores of fans coming and going and eating and leaving behind trash.

The STMA page on Facebook provides an online resource for members to network, participate in discussions of industry related topics, share pictures and videos, and keep up-to-date on industry events.

Bob Blumenfield, a freshman Assemblymember in California, presented a bill to the state legislature last month that would use public money to install synthetic turf as a water saving measure.

During the company's annual dealer and customer event held at the Golf Industry Show in New Orleans, Jacobsen announced the recipients of its 2008 Dealer Awards.

The Oregon Sports Turf Managers Association event will feature Philadelphia Phillies head groundskeeper and Pacific Northwest native Mike Boekholder as well as Portland Parks' own Debbie Kneeshaw.

Turface Athletics has announced a new partnership with Ripken Baseball Inc. (RBI). Now named The Official Sports Field Conditioner of Ripken Baseball, Turface Athletics will work with its new partner to continue to promote field education and maintenance.

Predicting the direction of fertilizer prices in the current economic climate is about as easy as forecasting the weather or knowing how the stock market will respond on any given day. But Dave Heegard, vice president and general manager of LebanonTurf, says if he were betting, he would put his money on prices going up in advance of what he thinks will be very strong spring demand.