WOODSTOCK – Town Manager Vern Maxfield told selectmen Tuesday that repairs to the Whitman Field backstop, grandstand and dugout are nearly complete.
“The (fixes) look really good,” Selectmen Ron Deegan said. “I went down there and the trim around the dugout looks great.”
Deegan said at the board meeting in July that he was driving past the field and “saw some things that probably aren’t safe.” He said the fencing system was starting to fall apart and there were pipes sticking out of the field’s backstop.
Maxfield said that resident Pat Carson offered to fix the ball field, explaining in an e-mail to the town that the field was in “desperate need of overseeding,” and that the pitcher’s mound needed to be “rebuilt with clay rather than in-field mix.”
“He said that he can do what he needs to do for $1,000,” Maxfield said. “It’s a bargain.”
Deegan suggested that Carson aerate the field to improve the quality of the grass.
In other business, selectmen signed paperwork setting the 2016-17 tax rate at $12.80 per $1,000 of assessed property value, a 10-cent increase over the previous year.
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