Ribbon snipped for Oconee’s newest school
A ribbon cut symbolically opened the new Seneca Middle School on the Wells Highway, to be ready in August for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students now housed in an old building on WS 4th Street. It’s likely an understatement to say that those who toured the new school are enthralled by what the public dollar has provided. Credit was given to the design and construction companies for the new complex, whose main hallway stretches nearly one thousand feet. Oconee’s five school trustees helped christen the place by staging their regular April meeting there last night. The budget for the project is believed to be running in the area of $55 to $57 million. For the near 44 acres purchased four years ago, the price tag was $1.7 million.