Forget the ox, 2009 could turn into the Year of the Weed in Brampton, Ontario as the province's pesticide ban kicks in and forces the city to look to alternatives for boulevard, park and sports field maintenance.
With President Obama's plan to tax the rich to pay for health care facing deep skepticism on Capitol Hill, key lawmakers are pressing a different way to raise money: taxing the health benefits workers receive from their employers.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will begin installing six groundwater monitoring wells in Visalia (CA)this week to test for perchloroethylene (PCE)--a chemical commonly used for dry cleaning and metal degreasing.
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.
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.
