Old and young celebrate Orleans school’s centenary

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The cornerstone of the Orleans Elementary School, previously Orleans High School, is just over a hundred years old with the building celebrating its first graduating class over the weekend. Though the high school closed when the Lake Region Union High School opened in 1967, the building has remained in use for a century.

by Matthew Wilson

ORLEANS — A hundred years is a long time for anything to last. Time weathers away everything, and only with great care can something be kept over the course of many generations. For the Orleans Elementary School, such loving care can be seen in the state of the old schoolhouse. Today, a century after it first opened to students, the school still is a place where young people learn with pride. A celebration on Saturday marking the long life of the schoolhouse, originally the Orleans High School, was held over the weekend, welcoming alumni from now and then to come and commemorate the halls where they once studied.

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