Salem resident takes issue with district building plan survey

Because of the effect it has on communities, Salem’s Lynne Martin opposes school closings.  She has taken a look at the proposed Oconee School District long-range building plans.  For now, however, she has balked at choosing one plan over another.  That’s after discovering, she said, that a vote in favor of Plan A or Plan B would close both the Keowee Elementary School and the Tamassee-Salem Elementary School and combine both into a new school.  She has communicated her distress to her county trustee, District One’s Amanda Holder.  Having experienced the closing of the public high school in her home town eight years ago, Martin says a community loses when a school is closed.  She believes that applied not only to Salem when the Tamassee-Salem High closed, but to Walhalla when the high school there moved from the corporate limits to a rural area between both Walhalla and Salem.