The protests began shortly after the February meeting, when the Milton Country Club board of directors approved an upgrade to the underground irrigation system. The existing system watered only the fairways and greens, and a dry spell the previous summer burned the roughs into straw and baked the tee boxes into hardpan. At first, the protests mustered only a handful of unreconstructed hippies well into their dotage. They waved signs, rang bells, and jeered at the expensive cars passing through the main gate. Kind of comical, really, until April, when Save Our Sound, an environmental group with a history of
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