Schools
Madison Officials Testify Against Pesticide Law
Without the use of pesticides, school athletic fields are becoming "unplayable"
Municipal officials from Madison and other Connecticut towns seek to overturn the 7-year-old ruling that bans the use of pesticides around elementary schools in the state, CTPost.com reports.
Officials from Madison, Glastonbury and South Windsor said in the article that without the use of the chemicals, the schools' athletic fields are "becoming unplayable," noting how expensive it would be to have to redo the fields.
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Rep. Richard Roy, D-Milford, who participated in the writing of the 2005 ban, sain in the article: "Every time you put the chemicals on the ground, some little 6-year-old boy is going to come rolling in it. I do hope that this bill fails."
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