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Dream team
Turf's up
Million-dollar surface
will cover Tucker Field
in time for football season
'This will give
us a first-class
image.'
By MARCIA GREEN
Valley Breeze Editor
mgreen@valleybreeze.com
valley breeze photo by paul r. dubois
Girls just wanna have fun! Enjoying each other's company during a practice session before departing for
Bristol, Conn., to take part in the Northeast Regional Tournament are these members of the Cumberland
Little League Majors softball state champion all-star team. From left are Cassidy Carr, Ali Mowry,
Mackenzie Vallely and Kaitlyn D'Abrosca.
Cumberland softball girls heading
to Northeast Regional Tournament
By PAUL R. DUBOIS
Valley Breeze Sports Editor
pdubois@valleybreeze.com
CUMBERLAND – Alex
Pina swears that she's going to
have an anxiety attack.
Alli Mowry can't wait to
visit the ESPN studios, Chloe
Kessler is anxious for that con-
stant stream of popular music
that pre-teen girls love, and
quiet Jocelyn Bodington just
wants to be with her extended
family and have fun.
Along with other members of
the Cumberland Little League
Softball Majors (11-12-year-old)
all-star team, friends and family, they departed this morning
for Bristol, Conn., where as
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Rhode Island champions, they
will participate in the annual
Northeast Regional Tournament
at the Bart A. Giamatti Sports
Complex.
A caravan of vehicles collected at Bentley Field and
began the trek to Bristol, where
the girls will stay in dormitories
See REGIONALS, Page 33
CUMBERLAND – The
same firm that installed artificial turf at Gillette Stadium for
the New England Patriots now
has a $1 million contract to
lay the same quality carpet at
Tucker Field – in time for the
Clippers' home football game
against St. Raphael Academy
on Oct. 4.
The new surface is the
final upgrade to the Tucker
Field complex across from
Cumberland High School that
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CUMBERLAND – Plans to
relocate the pond in front of
the Diamond Hill Park stage
to create a new "Cumberland
Music Pavilion" were submitted to the state Department of
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serves not only the school but
community youth groups.
The contract also includes
replacing the surface of the
running track.
Mayor Daniel McKee told
the Town Council last week
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Plans for new Diamond Hill Park
music pavilion move forward
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If w e don't
have it, you don't
need it!
Daniel Mckee
Cumberland mayor
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Environmental
Management
about a month
ago, says
George Gifford,
of the Gifford
Design Group
in Cumberland.
The two-inch
See PARK, Page 25
