Over the last few weeks, crews have removed the natural grass at Ballard High School’s athletic field in preparation to install artificial turf.

While artificial turf is much easier to maintain, as we’ve written about before, not everyone is sold on the idea. The $1.65 million project is scheduled to be completed by August, before the football season begins.

By the way, if you’re wondering what happened with Ballard High School’s website, it crashed and burned a couple months ago. So the second-period web design class quickly built this new site (sing along!)