Ground broke for Tupper’s new Little League field
TUPPER LAKE — The ground has been broken on this town’s Little League “Field of Dreams,” a volunteer supported project to give Tupper Lake kids a field of their own.
The starting of the construction in the Municipal park was delayed a little over a month, but on Thursday morning Little League coaches, the town board and a couple of the 110 kids who play Tupper Lake baseball stood by the Kentile Excavating machinery that Adam Boudreau is donating his time to operate, leveling the field.
The site on the shore of Raquette Pond will be stripped, leveled and filled with sod by the end of July, and the field is expected to be playable by next year’s season. The field was approved because the league had to compete for field time on the park’s softball field with adult teams.
The project is around half way to its new goal of $90,000, from donations and Rotary club fundraisers.
The skate park near the volleyball courts has to be moved to make room for the field, and an “anonymous donor” is helping to fund the moving of the skate park 50 yards, where it will be located between the basketball courts and the bathrooms.