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ASTM International Committee F08 on Sports Equipment and Facilities is meeting May 19-21, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as well as November 11-13, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.

Poway, CA city manager Rod Gould told City Council the city may use redevelopment funds to replace some athletic fields with artificial turf in an effort to conserve water.

Those interested in learning about turf management and irrigation for parks, golf courses, and sports field maintenance are invited to attend a free workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on March 25 in San Marcos.

To Mark Manendo, the ground cover that surrounds his father's gravestone is fraught with meaning. "Natural grass is a lot nicer than everything else," said the assemblyman, who with Sen. Warren Hardy, R-Las Vegas, has introduced Assembly Bill 3 to require that the state maintain real grass around gravestones at veteran's cemeteries. The bill would leave no option for desert landscaping or artificial turf.

The EPA and its MSMA task force have announced that the use of MSMA in sports turf will not be allowed after 2010.

For those fans who hated Shea Stadium, fear not: Citi Field is nothing like its predecessor, the last bits of which lie in ruins a few hundreds yards away. The Mets' new park, which will open its doors for a Georgetown-St. John’s baseball game March 29, is far more intimate than Shea and corrects some of Shea's worst faults.

For parents in Lower Macungie (PA), it's become as much a rite of spring as annual youth sports league signups: the mad scramble for green space. The organizers behind organized sports in one of the state's fastest growing municipalities are feeling their share of growing pains in trying to accommodate an influx of youngsters brought by the township's housing boom.

The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) today announced that it has serious concerns with a premature rush to 15 percent ethanol (E15) or other mid-level fuel blends as being suggested by pro-ethanol producers.

An anonymous corporate donor has backed out of a plan to give $225,000 to Albemarle High School to help pay for a synthetic turf athletics field.

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.