quarter million dollar arsenic wrote on Nov 10, 2008 6:48 PM:Wow, I'd like to earn $718,169 for ONE WEEKS WORK! Arsenic? Any old lace too?

Say What wrote on Nov 10, 2008 8:06 PM:Has the district put any thought into testing past athletes that played on this field? After all, they are acting like anyone that comes in contact with the field will be able to glow in the dark.

Joe wrote on Nov 11, 2008 6:25 AM:When I saw the headline I thought it would be about that clay infield they had in the 70's on their baseball field! I was never sure if it was really clay or got it's color from all the blood spilled on it from the knees of the base runners when sliding.

Julie wrote on Nov 11, 2008 6:42 AM:Wow! I'm in the wrong business. That is WAY TOO MUCH TO SPEND! You need to get another bid. There are plenty of people who would love to do that job at a reasonable price.

Carlsbad HS Class of 03 wrote on Nov 11, 2008 7:36 AM:I find it amusing that we did Arsenic and Old Lace in Fall of 1999, and now there's arsenic in the field.. Haha.

It seems to me that they're using these findings to justify this two year long project and in the process are going to screw over all of the field sports, graduation, and the PE classes.. I wonder if they've given any thought to these things.

Oh Carlsbad, how you'll never change in your unplanned pretentious ways. I thank you for providing me education in my childhood, I do not miss you now, nor ever.

South Carlsbad wrote on Nov 11, 2008 8:07 AM:Whatever the cost, its worth it for Carlsbad to have a football team. I mean 1 football team. Maybe we can cut some more AP courses and those teachers, and just build a new stadium with artifical turf.

Its just your money wrote on Nov 11, 2008 8:20 AM:what does the board and superintendent care. The whole $200,000 NEVER should have been approved. The fear of lower property values drove the passage. It was never about the better education of kids.

to South Carlsbad wrote on Nov 11, 2008 10:19 AM:Maybe you haven't been paying attention, but they are building a new stadium with artificial turf. All the schools are going to it.

Resident wrote on Nov 11, 2008 2:24 PM:The field is toxic. Fix it, no matter the cost. Get real people.

Oside Res wrote on Nov 11, 2008 3:50 PM:The Vista American Little League field in Oceanside is still sitting contaminated 4 years later.

House values - Buddy cares wrote on Nov 21, 2008 9:43 AM:Not sure the new stadium and field will fuel higher home values, but you do know that our mayor's home is diagonally across from this 3/4 million dollar face lift, right? I mean less than 2 home lengths away - go figure.