To the Editor: The Field Fund prefers to focus on the benefits and feasibility of grass playing fields, and the work our nonprofit does to support natural playing surfaces on the Island. We wish we had good news to share now, but we don’t. For more than eight years, a 5-4 majority on the MVRHS […]
Members of the Up-Island Regional School District (UIRSD) gave their blessing to the Field Fund for access to the West Tisbury School’s non-potable well, providing a source of irrigation for adjacent town fields. At Monday’s UIRSD committee meeting, West Tisbury School principal Donna Lowell-Bettencourt said the Field Fund came to her because they are working […]
To the Editor: Grass versus turf. Like a lot of people on M.V., I heard the beginnings of the controversy about an artificial playing field at the high school several years ago. Grass versus artificial grass grass with all the work, mud, fertilizer, etc., versus clean plastic, which can be used as often as […]
To the Editor: An open letter to the MVRHS Committee: Recently several of your members referenced a 2019 report, prepared for the MVRHS by Synthetic Turf Council member Chris Huntress, to argue for even more playing fields (bringing the total to eight multipurpose fields, more than many universities!) or as a justification to continue […]
To the Editor: While the statement from the MVRHS leadership regarding the recent vulgar outburst against a female community member speaking about possible contamination from the proposed plastic field is a step in the right direction, it doesn’t go nearly far enough. It fails to acknowledge that it is part of a pattern of intimidation. […]