SOUTHWICK – Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional Schools Superintendent John Barry gave the school committee a quick update on the school project this week.
Barry said much of the work being done currently at Powder Mill Middle School is taking place in the gymnasium and is nearly complete.
“It should be ready for general use the week of Nov. 3,” Barry said.
Seventh and eighth graders are set to move to the high school in January following the holiday break. Barry spoke about the logistics of entering the Powder Mill building because construction will move to the west wing.
“We are going to keep the front entrance where it is and the superintendent’s entrance will be available, but that’s not where the kids will enter, and there will be fencing along the sidewalk where the buses are parking,” he said.
A group of middle school parents from Granville attended the school committee meeting and read a letter asking the committee to hold off on a decision to move Granville Village School seventh and eighth graders to Southwick another year.
Among other things, the letter stated that the Granville Parent Association members were “not convinced moving our seventh and eighth graders is the best” decision.
The committee did not address the concerns during the meeting. When Granville voted to join the district in order to improve the schools in 2012, Barry told families there was no pre-planned decision or moving or closing date on the fate of the school or the relocation of its students.
