Methacton School Community Asked to Show Support for Field Lights
Methacton School Community encouraged to attend the Dec. 19 Worcester Township Supervisors meeting.
Members of the Methacton School Board are urging the school community to show their support of installing Methacton High School athletic field lights. During the Dec. 4 Methacton School Board regular meeting, board member Jim Phillips said that the Worcester Township Board of Supervisors is expected to place a vote concerning the installation of field lights on their Dec. 19 meeting agenda. “I would appreciate it if people were to show their support for Methacton and make themselves available for that night,” Phillips said. The lights installation would enable night use of the athletic field. According to a 1998 Philly.com article, the lights have been a point of contention since the early 1980s. The article reports that the Worcester …
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Laura Winslow
3:46 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Not sure if I can attend the meeting, but would like to suggest to the board of supervisors that the lights can come with hours of operation. I know of a lighted turf field in another jurisdiction that has controls on the lights so that Sun-Thurs the lights go off at 8:45 (events are scheduled to end at 8:30 so that there is time to walk to cars) and on Fri and Sat the lights must go off at 10:15… more ›