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PHOTOS: Fields Work Well Underway
Phase one of a project to improve field drainage at the Center Playfields complex should be complete by early winter, with the fields back on line for the spring seasons.
Work is well underway on the first phase of field drainage improvements at the Center Playfields. With massive dirt mounds and machinery doing work on the grounds where Lexington’s young athletes practice and compete, the playing fields look the part of the battlefield metaphors sometimes used in sports. The work, which was bid out this spring and should conclude before winter, should “address a real drainage problem and is going to implement draining improvements on baseball, multipurpose and varsity softball fields, said Recreation Director Karen Simmons. According to the contract announcement the Recreation Department posted online this spring, the work includes “stripping, amending and re-spreading the existing topsoil; re-grading …
