School Specifies Public Play Area as Part of Synthetic Turf Install

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Somerset (Ky.) High School football games are family affairs — so much so that fans are encouraged to cross the 400-meter, equal-quadrant track that surrounds the varsity field (located at Meece Middle School) and take in games while seated on their own chairs behind an end zone.

Over the years, it became tradition for children to take advantage of the large radius of grass between the field’s endline and track to play pick-up football during varsity games. When the school district converted to synthetic turf in 2021, officials suggested permanent inlaid markings for a mini-field, and RBS Design Group Architecture in Owensboro was happy to oblige — eventually.

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