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Craftsbury voters will consider new school plan
by Bethany M. Dunbar
CRAFTSBURY COMMON — Voters in Craftsbury will consider a bond vote on November 4, the same day as the General Election.
At a school board meeting on Tuesday evening, the board unanimously approved a total project amount of $13,245,362. The board also set dates for public hearings and approved a wood pellet heating system for the building.
Voters defeated a $10-million proposal in February 2006 and another plan a year earlier. Since then the school board has done extensive surveys of the community and hired the new architects to make a plan that would more closely reflect the town’s desires.
The new project includes a new kindergarten through eighth grade school building at the Dustan sports field site north of the common. The plan calls for tearing down the existing gymnasium and renovating the existing old church building and Minden Hall with a connecting structure between them. High school students would use those buildings for classes and use the cafeteria and gymnasium that would be at the new building.
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