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It was late August 2002 about 4:30 a.m., when the blare of sirens, the smell of smoke and the sight of flames shooting into the sky woke not just Eagle Point residents, but much of the Rogue Valley. Eagle Point Junior High school was ablaze. The large empty space on E. Main behind the Eagle…
{gallery}/04_26_11/ground{/gallery} Even the rain knew it could wait just a bit longer while some 500 students, school officials and community gathered for the groundbreaking at Hillside Elementary. As Little Butte Elementary Principal Lynn Scott said, 8 ½ years ago many in the crowd stood in the darkness of the late August day watching most of…
“This is the best School District 9 meeting I’ve been to,” said Board Chair Scott Grissom as he gaveled the special March 23, 2011 meeting to a close. Some eight years after a fire devastated Eagle Point Junior High School, the District 9 Board of Directors approved a contract that will see construction within one…
Eight years and a few days after most of the Eagle Point Junior High School burned to the ground, an architect was finally approved last week by the District 9 Board of Directors for construction of a new elementary school. Virtually the entire administrative team including four business managers, school board, nearly every school principal…
It has been just short of six years since an early morning blaze destroyed most of the Eagle Point Junior High School. Since that time there have been numerous meetings with Great American Insurance representatives. Three years ago School District 9 and Great American retained legal counsel in an effort to reach a financial settlement….
