Coming along nicely
Walk around the construction zone near New Hampton High School, and the — it isn’t taking long for the walls to go up — thought hits almost immediately.But if one looks “inside” what will be New Hampton Middle School next year, one realizes a lot more than the walls are going up. Sub-floors are being placed, roof joints are going in and before long, the new middle school — not to mention the gym and the industrial technology and vocational agriculture center — will be enclosed.Not bad for three weeks of work, especially considering how rainy it was during that three-week period.“It’s going well, very well,” New Hampton Superintendent Jay Jurrens said Friday as he toured the construction site.— For more on this story, see the Oct. 16 New Hampton Tribune.