June 21, 2010

A fire on the roof of the Louisiana New School Academy was quickly extinguished Monday afternoon because firefighters happened to be passing by when the fire started.

A fire started at the Louisiana New School Academy this afternoon when construction workers were heating tar on the roof and gutter system of the building, according to a Baton Rouge Fire Department news release.

The Brookings School Board talked phones and food at its regular monthly meeting earlier this week, as members looked at end-of-year expenses and projections for next year.

Retiring Business Services Director Robert Morton said the construction bonds could help the repairs of several elementary schools, such as Chapman, Whitney and Muraski, as well as both middle schools and a section of the high school.

Check our construction road map to see if your route to work, school or recreation is affected this week and whether you need to make alternate travel arrangements.

Teacher housing in Snowmass Village is under construction. If it’s not finished by Aug. 1, the district will be putting some occupants up at a hotel.

A U.S. 165 road project critical for the opening of the new Sterlington Elementary School later this year is underway.

Jacksonville’s Norwood neighborhood could see its first large-scale, new construction project in decades now that the City Council has indicated it will approve plans to convert an abandoned school into senior housing. The council’s Land Use and Zoning Committee already has signed off on the $17 million proposal to renovate Norwood Elementary School into a commercial development and build two …

The Mobridge-Pollock School Board Monday, June 14, formally accepted the $4.5 million federal grant for the construction and renovation of the middle school building and the completion of the new school project.

DANVERS Borrowing a lyric from the Grateful Dead, it occurred to selectmen Chairman Mike Powers “what a long, strange trip it’s been” trying to get an $80 million high school construction project off the ground.