Selectmen Ban Pesticides on Athletic Fields

On the recommendation of Park Department Director Adam Parsons, the Woodbridge Board of Selectmen has voted to ban the use of chemical pesticides on town athletic fields, a proposal that .

According to the New Haven Register, the town Recreation Commission had wanted to exempt one field from the ban, but Parsons said he was confident he could maintain all the fields without using chemical pesticides. ENews Park Forest, an online news report, noted that a hearing in Hartford is scheduled for this Friday by the state Legislature on a proposed bill to allow local governments more authority over banning pesticide use.

  showed that a small sampling of online readers were overwhelmingly in favor of Woodbridge’s pesticide ban on school grounds.