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In the foreground, a man in a brown sweatshirt and blue jeans pounds a mallet into a wooden pole. He stands on a grassy field with a patch covered in tan hay. In the background, there is an electronic scoreboard and two shelters that have "University of Maine Farmington" logos on them.
Brian Mason, a Jay resident and grounds-facility worker at the University of Maine at Farmington, lines off Leid Field for seasonal seeding on Tuesday, May 11. Kay Neufeld/Franklin Journal

Kay Neufeld is a business reporter with the Portland Press Herald, covering labor, unions and Maine's workforce; lobstering, fisheries and the working waterfront. They also love telling stories that illustrate...