Pardon our Dust!

Last year’s major building project at the old Woodside site, now the Rolland-Warner Middle School building, was simply a preview of more exciting building projects to come.

With the end of classes and the 2008-2009 school year, the construction projects fueled by the May 2007 bond have kicked into overdrive. The summer of 2009 will see major construction and remodeling projects at several school buildings. All are underway.

A May 20th ground breaking at Zemmer Junior High School signaled the start of work to convert the building into Zemmer Middle School by September 2010.

One day after teachers and students left the halls of Lapeer East and Lapeer West High Schools on June 11th, workers began the process of dismantling and renovating science classrooms into state-of-the-art, 21st Century science laboratories.

A new Lapeer West weight room and auxiliary gym. Also under construction and are expected to be complete by the time the students return in the fall.

No sooner had the staff and children at Kids & Company at the Cramton Building departed than workers descended on that site to begin the process of upgrading classrooms there into a new home for the students at Lapeer Community High School. The new gymnasium at Cramton was completed last winter.

With students gone from the Rolland-Warner site for the summer, work began on the remaining wing at that site. Construction work is in its closing stages on much of the Rolland-Warner site heading to a 6:00 PM August 27th public ribbon cutting and open house.

Final touches are being done to the seventh and eighth grade wings of the building. The sixth grade wing was completed last fall.

In addition to the major building projects, a new parking lot is being installed at Mayfield Elementary School and new furnishings are being delivered to the same buildings currently undergoing renovations and construction.