April 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal authorities say savings in the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ construction projects will be used to complete school repairs in Arizona, New Mexico and South Dakota.

Money will provide for completion of the school’s gymnasium/wellness center Federal stimulus money that has been saved on Bureau of Indian Affairs construction projects will be used to fund four additional school projects, including one at Santa Fe Indian School. Assistant . . .

Red earth and downed trees mark the site where the new Shelby Middle school will be constructed in upcoming months, and those plans just moved forward with the opening of bidding by construction companies. Dr. Bruce Boyles, superintendent of…

The design process for the new Dover High School will begin in the coming three to six weeks with the formation of an executive planning team, which will recommend an architect, work with the architect in completing a design for submission, and work with architects and/or construction managers in decisions on planning and construction work.

BY CHELSEY POLLOCK A Salem High School student sustained substantial facial injuries last week, police say, after another students chokehold left him unconscious. Salem police Capt. Shawn Patten said the incident took place during a construction class Friday, April 23, when one male student put another into a chokehold. The student lost consciousness, Patten said, and dropped to the floor. When …

The Phoenixville Area School District’s Board of Directors passed a motion on Thurs., April 15, to approve the construction of two artificial turf field projects, with the second to be further considered in the next two years.

The Forest Hills Board of Education has sold $16.5 million in bonds and voted to move forward with construction projects at Pine Ridge Elementary and Forest Hills Eastern High School.

NEW YORK—-Sontag Advisory, LLC, a leading independent investment advisory firm with offices in New York and Connecticut, announced today that it will support the planning, construction and furnishing of a new primary school in Haiti for 400 children as part of the firms celebration of its 15th anniversary.

Although the Pine Road Elementary School construction project got off schedule because of snow in December and rain in March, Gil Lappano, the projects clerk of the works, said things seem to be getting back on track.

The wish list has been narrowed down for the Gretna Public Schools Board of Education. Last week the Citizens Building and Construction Committee met for the last time to come up with the most important projects to propose a fourth elementary school, a Gretna High School addition, land acquisition, bus barn addition and paving, and technology and security improvements.