Selectmen Split on Turf Field Project

Foxborough's Board of Selectmen were split in its support of Article 6 of the Special Town Meeting Warrant at its Nov. 20 meeting.

While the school department’s support of a community turf field in Foxborough has been overwhelming the same cannot be said for the town’s Board of Selectmen. On Nov. 20, selectmen were split in their support of Article 6 of the Dec. 11 Special Town Meeting Warrant, voting 2-2. Board of Selectmen chair James DeVellis recused himself from the table because he is the chair of the Turf’s Up committee, a community group that has spent the last four years trying to bring a turf field to Foxborough. Selectmen Lynda Walsh and Mark Sullivan expressed support of the turf field project at the Nov. 20 meeting. “This started out as a community project and folks really got behind it and supported it as much as they could,” Walsh said. “$60,000 is a lot…

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