NORTHVILLE - It is well off the beaten path, nestled on the edge of a town with less than 200 people. There is nothing to indicate a hidden gem lies next to an old schoolhouse in Northville. Yet on multiple nights throughout the summer, Peterson Field comes to life as locals flock to baseball games on a field that features major renovations including an artificial surface surrounding home plate and up each baseline. "It’s been an evolution," said Alex Boekelheide, who has handled the capital campaign for the field upgrades. "The most recent projects have been the updating of the dugouts, adding the press box/announcer booth up on top of the homefield dugout, and doing some repairing on the grandstands, and then installing turf on the home plate area, and the first and third baselines." Nolan Peterson, whose family is the one that field is named after, has been a part of helping to maintain the facility ever since he was a little boy. He said the renovations were part of a de