William J. Kemble in The Daily Freeman reports that the Catskill Town Board last week debated, but did not decide, whether to spend $1,500 for engineering studies of the Ricky Cramer Memorial Field. Apparently, some town board members think the park should be expanded or changed, and the study would lay out those possibilities. In the meantime, the board will allow it to be rented by Catskill Little League. “The main thing... is to come up with a plan of how we can execute it in phases from one restoration of the field that we have and then proceed on,” Councilman Kevin Lennon said. Councilman Michael Smith was against paying for studies when the town is not giving employees raises, saying, “I have a problem spending $1,500 just on a proposal with no idea what the proposal is going to say in terms of what’s going to be recommended.... Then there’s the second completely independent thing that we need to address is whatever they’re proposing how do we raise the money for it.” Read the entire story in The Daily Freeman.