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Buchanan County breaks ground on consolidated Southern Gap High School; officials cite long planning, federal support
Summary
Officials, federal engineers and the school board marked the Southern Gap High School groundbreaking and heard a construction update: site grading, utility work and concrete slabs are complete for much of the first floor; officials said federal programs and intergovernmental collaboration made the consolidation possible.
Buchanan County Public Schools on the evening of the board meeting marked the ceremonial groundbreaking for the consolidated Southern Gap High School and received a detailed construction update showing the project is well under way.
"This has been a long journey," said Angie McClanahan, chairperson of the Buchanan County Public Schools Board, thanking intergovernmental partners and community members for the work that made the project possible. Sherry Fletcher, who emceed the ceremony, traced the project’s federal connections to flood-response planning, citing federal authorizations enacted after the April 1977 flood and more recent…
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