School project remains on track

The brick is in, the walls are up and when walking around what will be New Hampton’s soon-to-be middle school, one can definitely see a school building taking shape.“I know I say this almost every time we’ve done an update,” Superintendent Jay Jurrens said during a recent tour of the facility, “but it looks different every single time I come in here, and that’s the case, even if I was here just yesterday.”The middle school is part of the $19.415 million construction project that voters approved in February 2017 and, along with a new competition gymnasium and vocational agriculture and industrial technology center, is expected to open for the start of the 2019-20 school year.And that academic year starts in a little more than five months.— For more on this story, see the March 15 New Hampton Tribune.