LEBANON, N.H. -
Residents in the Lebanon, N.H., school district will meet Wednesday evening to discuss the future of the city's junior high school.
In 2010, voters approved the construction of a new fifth- through eighth-grade middle school in the district. The $24 million project replaces the current junior high which was long deemed inadequate for students.
The next step in the plan includes the demolition of the Bank Street Junior High, where a new elementary school will be built. But ultimately voters in the district will have to approve it.
"Now that we will be vacating the junior high school, in the summer at the end of the school year, it's the time to begin discussing with the community to continue that discussion on what we do with the Bank Street property," said Laura Dykstra of the Lebanon School Board.
Students are scheduled to begin classes in the new middle school this fall. Construction officials say the project is on time and on budget.
A $750,000 bond for demolition of the junior high school will be a warrant article up for vote on the city's March ballot.
