At a Middlesex Township work session meeting Wednesday, supervisors and residents discussed the pros and cons of potential construction of a turf soccer field at the Middlesex Township Community Park.

Blair Gerlach, soccer coach for the Mars Area Soccer Club, brought the subject up at the meeting. He said that previous discussions on planned soccer field construction at the park hadn't worked out in the past due to cost, and that he wanted to follow up.

“The club that I run, we play teams from other states. When another team comes from another state to play and it rains, you can't just cancel,” Gerlach said. “It has to be on a turf surface.”

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