School board considers Lytton field request

A leader with an adult softball league that played more than 75 games at some of the Lytton ball fields this season asked the South Central Calhoun School Board to consider handing over the former youth league fields to the City of Lytton Sept. 19.
Brett Meyer has spearheaded the league, which brought the old youth league fields back in to playing shape, he told school board members. The league has eight teams with players from more than 20 towns, Meyer said, and brings 80 to more than 100 players to Lytton each Sunday during the summer season.
All of the other fields on which the league plays are city owned leagues, Meyer said, asking the school board members if they would consider selling or giving the fields to the City of Lytton. Meyer also proposed a chain link fence for part of the field. That, and the fields’ proximity to a district bus barn and diesel and gasoline storage tanks by the barn, presented obstacles to Meyer’s proposal, SCC Transportation Director Doug Riley said.
“My big concern is snow,” he said. “If we put a permanent fence there, it’s going to create snow drifts.” 
Read more in the Sept. 28 edition.