The new $8.4 million Arnoldsburg Elementary School will
likely be opened on this pastoral site in 2013 on land
connected to early Calhoun history, the environs of
Peregrine Hays and near the Battle of Arnoldsburg ...
The Calhoun Board of Education has purchased about 20 acres of land on which to build the new $8.4 million Arnoldsburg School.
The land owners are James and Barbara Powell of Parkersburg and Iolene Powell of Chillicothe, Ohio.
The purchase price is $36,000, according to Superintendent of Schools Roger Propst, at $1,800 per acre or $18,000 per owner.
The property being purchased will encase the current five acre plot where the current school now stands, adding approximately 20 acres to the campus, Propst said.
"We will be extending up the hill further than before for site preparation," he said, the new acreage being out of the flood plain. The current school rests on about five acres.
Any excess would be compensated at $1,800 per acre or any portion of an acre, in case the survey shows the need for additional space.
The current Arnoldsburg school was built in 1952, and will be long remembered for floods disrupting attendance.
The WV School Building Authority is providing about $5.5 million to build the new school, matched by a $2.8 million bond approved by county voters.
Contracts are out for bid for new ventilation/cooling systems to be added to the gyms at Calhoun Middle-High School, also approved by voters in a levy election.
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