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Board approves stadium naming, scoreboard and easement authority for Poplar Hill school site
Summary
The Rutherford County School Board approved several facility requests: a video scoreboard funded by a booster club loan, a donated softball outfield deck, Smyrna High baseball stadium naming, and authorized the board attorney to negotiate right‑of‑way and sewer easements (including eminent domain if necessary) for the Poplar Hill school site.
The Rutherford County School Board approved multiple facility and construction items on Tuesday, including athletic facility projects and a motion authorizing legal negotiation of easements needed to serve the new Poplar Hill school site.
Principal Justin Smith presented requests for a video scoreboard at Blackman High School (project cost $256,865 to be funded by a booster club loan from First American Bank) and a 16×16 outfield deck for Blackman High School softball (materials and labor donated). The board approved both projects after staff explained that booster‑club loans are separate from the school system’s borrowing and that improvements on school property become district county‑owned assets covered by district insurance once completed.
The board also approved…
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