NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. — Pretty Prairie USD 311 Superintendent Ashley Anderson told Hutch Post that the gym project at the middle school is continuing forward.
"We are, I guess, right in the thick of it, to be honest," Anderson said. "Everything is still ahead of schedule a little bit, even with all the rain, so we're excited about that. The crew is working on the brick and everything. We got walls up on that new addition within a week. It was just amazing that the skyline changed so much in just a few short days. But yeah, they're going to be able to put the the roof on, re-roofing will come down and do that the first week of December, and then all of the work will be done inside during the winter."
In addition, they've almost got all the window project finished.
"We've almost finished, completely finished all the windows, so Sturgeon Glass is doing their punch list right now on that," Anderson said. "We really didn't have any issues. Everything's just really starting to get checked off the list and we're making good progress and seeing the results."
Also, the capital outlay project of moving the library is wrapping up.
"We had a library renovation project going at the same time and to make a new commons area for the kids in the entry of the high school," Anderson said. That project was finalized by the fire marshal, so we can start kind of taking over that space and making it ours, and we've got a new journalism classroom out of that as well."
The hope is to finish the middle school gym project in time for use in the 2025-2026 school year.