Misc

A fire ignites at an Anne Arundel County elementary school under construction.

FLORENCE The Florence-Penrose School Board approved Monday a contingency fee agreement with the law firm Sullan2, Sandgrund, Smith, and Perczak for the litigation of the construction defects at Florence High School that set wheels in motion concerning the structural problems.

A St. Charles Parish school bus completing a “mock run” to get ready for the school year was destroyed after it caught fire Tuesday morning in St. Rose. There were no children on the bus at the time and the…

The new Crossroads Elementary School in Bullitt County will be ready for students, but parts of the school remain unfinished.

A Cromwell man has died following a construction accident at Carrington School in Waterbury.

Back to school means crunch time for schools under construction. But for one district, they are working and fast and furious to finish the new addition to their middle school, two years in the making.

BROOKFIELD — The entire south parking lot at Brookfield High School is being repaired due to a fire pump leak, First Selectman Bill Davidson said at the August Board of Selectmen meeting.

NEWPORT-Although the Finance Committee of the Cocke County Legislative Body Monday approved a resolution authorizing $5,634,997 in bonds for school construction loan money, members want more answers on financing by Monday’s full meeting of the CLB.

Mabel Padgett Elementary School in Goodyear opened this week with about 780 students. The 82,000square-foot, $9 million school is named after Litchfield Elementary School District’s founder and first teacher.

LIMERICK The Western Montgomery Career & Technology Center joint operating committee agreed Monday to a set of engineering recommendations addressing drainage issues at the school.