District may need to make adjustments to make football field ready for season.
The Verona School District may have to spend as much as $30,000 to repair a sinkhole on the high school football field, a report in the Verona-Cedar Grove Times said Tuesday. The first Verona home football game is scheduled for Sept. 22, but the newspaper says district officials are already making contingency plans to schedule five home football games and a multi-district marching band festival to the high school’s lower field. The Times report, citing district officials, said the field would require $25,000 worth of adjustments to make it suitable for football and the marching band competition. That figure includes the rental of bleachers, portable bathrooms, a press box and goal posts, in addition to the relocation of the school's …
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A 15-foot depression uncovered during football practice forces team to change practice, possibly move home games, marching band event.
A sinkhole has closed the Verona High School football field and may postpone the first home game scheduled for Sept. 22, district officials said Officials are unsure if the field will be usable for any events this year. In the meantime, the football team has been practicing on the lower field, according to board member Glenn Elliott. Games would be possible (to be played on the lower field) if necessary, Elliott said in an email to Patch Thursday, “but we’re also looking at Centennial Field, if we can find times that wouldn’t be too disruptive to the other town sports that are already scheduled there.” “To the far side of the field on the visitors side we have always had issues with sinkholes and drainage,” Verona Board of Education John …
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