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Article: TOWN RECYCLES DUMP INTO GOLF COURSE LINKS IS STATE'S SECOND TO BE BUILT ON TRASH SITE

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July 5, 2001
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NATICK - 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 ...

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