For the second time in the past 3 years, research conducted by Dr. Andy McNitt at Penn State found little evidence that outdoor infilled synthetic turf systems pose a significant threat of harboring significant populations of staph bacteria.
Sequoia Union High School District (CA) announced that the baseball field at Sequoia High School has been selected as the site of a major field renovation on Jan. 19 as part of the events surrounding the 2009 Major League Baseball Groundskeepers Conference in San Jose, Jan. 17-19.
The Columbus Clippers are a Triple A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. The Clippers used to reside at Cooper Stadium some way out of the city but recently moved to a new downtown location and is now called Huntington Park.
A study was conducted last summer at Ohio State to look at summer seeded perennial ryegrass, since many athletic field managers have only a short period of time in the summer to get ground cover established between the spring & fall playing seasons.
A meeting held by the Board of Education to get feedback on the two-week pilot lights program on the artificial turf field was short and civil on Tuesday. The small group, possibly made smaller by the freezing rain, consisted of approximately 15 people, five of whom were neighbors. After cautioning everyone to be civil to one another, Board of Education Chairman John Boulton invited the public to speak.
This spring, high school athletes in Albemarle County Public Schools (NC) will receive a belated Christmas gift from an anonymous donor and county supervisors: state of the art synthetic field turf for the football fields. Thousands of students will walk, run and fall on that surface while playing football, field hockey, soccer or lacrosse. Though each field costs $600,000, maintenance will be a heck of a lot easier, and their durability will allow the broader community to play on the fields when they aren’t in use for high school games. But are these new fields really a gift—or a curse? In order to save maintenance money in the short term, Albemarle County is taking a gamble on a new product that may (or may not) have health risks.
Sequoia Union High School District announced that the baseball field at Sequoia High School has been selected as the site of a major field renovation on Jan. 19 as part of the events surrounding the 2009 Major League Baseball (MLB) Groundskeepers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Jan. 17-19.
