Thursday, February 21, 2013
Turf’s Up president Jim DeVellis checks in with Foxborough Patch to provide a community update on the turf field project at Foxborough High School.
For more town news and instant updates on stories like this (and more!), follow Foxborough Patch on Facebook and Twitter, or sign-up for our e-mail newsletter. While many are enjoying school vacation this week, Tree Tech and Turf’s Up volunteers are busy clearing five acres of land behind Foxborough High School in preparation for the construction of new baseball, softball and field hockey fields as part of the community turf field project. “We took advantage [of the school vacation] to get some work done to minimize disruption for the kids,” said Turf’s Up president Jim DeVellis. DeVellis said despite a “short disruption” from the Blizzard of 2013, volunteers from Tree Tech are about 75 percent complete with clearing the five acres behind …
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Turf’s Up chair James DeVellis met with Foxborough’s Conservation Commission Monday and hopes to begin clearing trees behind Foxborough High School by the end of January for the new baseball and softball fields.
So far, so good. That’s how Foxborough resident James DeVellis described the status of the recently approved community turf field project set to be constructed at the high school. That work will begin in the next couple of weeks, according to DeVellis, who called the construction schedule “aggressive.” On Monday, DeVellis met with the town’s Conservation Commission as the chair of the Turf’s Up committee to share information about the turf field project and inform them of the scheduled work to be done behind the high school near Hersey Field. “The meeting went well,” DeVellis said. “This was an informational meeting I asked for as a courtesy to let the Conservation Commission know that we will be clearing trees in the next few weeks in the…
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Turf's Up chair James DeVellis said the next step in the turf field project will be a meeting among community leaders who will be involved and impacted by the town's newest field.
Foxborough said “yes” at Tuesday’s Special Town Meeting to construct a turf field at the high school, green lighting the project to take the next step. So, what is that next step? Turf’s Up chair James DeVellis said it will be setting up a meeting with everyone in town that will be involved in and affected by the turf field. “The first thing I want to do is have a meeting with all the school, coaches and directors to make sure I can hear exactly what their needs are,” DeVellis said. “With so many sports, age groups and summer leagues there will undoubtedly be an inconvenience at some level and short of dropping [the turf field] from a helicopter onto the area, something has to give. Hopefully, with everyone in one room, we can figure out a…
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Foxborough's Advisory Committee voted 9-3 against recommending Article 6 of December’s Special Town Meeting Warrant.
When the warrant article for the proposed turf field project is presented at Town Meeting on Dec. 11, it will not have the support of Foxborough’s Advisory Committee. Article 6, “Artificial Turf Field,” of the Special Town Meeting Warrant failed to meet the approval of the Advisory Committee after a nearly two-and-a-half hour discussion at Wednesday’s meeting. “We would all love to say yes to this project,” said Advisory Committee chair Larry Thomas. “I understand the importance of athletics. [However], I don’t see how having a turf field is this quantum leap in athletic opportunity. … I’m not sure we can afford this with more debt coming down the pike.” Ad-Com, citing several concerns with the timing and cost of the project, voted 9-3 …
Friday, October 5, 2012
Voters are likely to be asked to approve the turf field article at December’s Town Meeting.
James DeVellis, president of Turf’s Up – a volunteer committee dedicated to bringing a turf field to town, described Monday’s meeting with Foxborough’s School Committee as a “home run.” “The [School Committee] voted [Monday] to sponsor a warrant article for [Fall] Town Meeting to bring it to the voters,” DeVellis said. “I think there’s enough support.” DeVellis, who also chairs the Foxborough Board of Selectmen, met with the school committee Monday to present a revised plan to bring a synthetic turf field and track to Foxborough High School. The turf complex would be used by the community as a whole – from youth to high school sports programs and future FHS graduations. DeVellis said when the committee originally envisioned bringing a turf…
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Janet Sroczynski
7:33 am on Thursday, February 21, 2013
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