Race for space: Board hopes addition opens in a year

By January Wetzel
First Posted: December 13, 2012 - 12:47 am
Last Updated: December 13, 2012 - 12:48 am

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Students in Louise Henry's fourth-grade class at Emerson Elementary School work on assignments at the end of a class period Tuesday. PHOTO BY AARON PIPER

A proposed expansion to the Emerson Elementary School building would extend north from a classroom wing of the school. PHOTO BY AARON PIPER

Seymour Community Schools officials plan to give students, teachers and staff of Emerson Elementary School a present worth just more than $1 million next Christmas.

During a two-hour work session Monday, trustees hammered out plans for a project to add on what they are referring to as an early-learning center. The project will include four classrooms, two for kindergarten and two for first grade.

The added rooms will allow the school to renovate existing space for music and art instruction, which are currently being given in a portable classroom in the school’s parking lot.

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