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Article: FROM GARBAGE TO GREENS NEW GOLF COURSE IS BUILT ATOP OLD DUMP
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2001
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Where garbage trucks once disgorged their loads and tractors
spread tons of fill from the Big Dig, college student Brian Donnelly
was gliding around last week in a golf cart, traversing paths scented
by fresh-cut grass.
Summer has brought the finishing touches of turf to one of
Natick's most ambitious projects, transforming the old town dump into
a nine-hole golf course.
Donnelly and a half-dozen other seasonal groundskeepers are
raking, watering, and fertilizing in preparation for an August grand
opening of the $1.9 million course, dubbed Sassamon Trace.
It is apparently the second golf course in the state to be built
on an old dump. The first, in Yarmouth, was completed two years ago,
and ...