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Updated: 12:08 PM Aug 21, 2008
UPDATE: Preferred Site for New Cabell Middle School May Not Be Available
It turns out, one of the favored sites for the project may be sold to someone else.
Posted: 11:57 AM Aug 21, 2008Reporter: Bill Murray & Phil Weber Email Address: news@wsaz.com |
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- There could be a snag in Cabell County’s efforts to build a new middle school.
It turns out, one of the favored sites for the project may be sold to someone else.
Cabell County Schools had expressed interested in the University Heights property.
It’s the parcel of land Marshall University owns next to Walmart on Route 60, the WV State Police Barracks and the Prestera Center.
We're told school board members will now attend a public hearing scheduled for August 29 regarding the proposed sale of the property to the Prestera Center.
The MU Board of Governors is having that hearing. A public notice says the sale price would $1,700.000.
The school board is also planning to hold an emergency meeting Friday morning at 10:00am. Board members will also tour the three proposed sites. The original plan was to tour all three sites sometime next week.
Cabell County is trying to build a new middle school that will combine Enslow and Beverly Hills schools.
Two other possible construction sites include the current location of the Vo-tech Center and the Veteran’s Memorial Field House.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The Cabell County School Board is one small step closer to deciding where to build a new consolidated middle school.
The board met Tuesday night to evaluate 13 potential sites. The board is considering building a new middle school that would consolidate Beverly Hills and Enslow Middle Schools.
Assistant Superintendent Mike O’Dell and ZMM architect Dave Ferguson told the board the top 3 sites were Marshall’s University Heights property along Route 60, property at the Cabell County Career Center, and Veterans Memorial Field House property.
The school system will now conduct further sites studies on the 3 properties. Board members are expected to tour all three sites in the next couple of weeks.
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I say good riddens! I lived there for 2 years and you know what I got? Headache thats what. My car was broke into 5 times and MUPD's solution was move the car to a different parking lot. My car was shot with a .45 calibur handgun and the bullet stopped at my daughters car seat. Still MU did nothing. $630 a month in rent and we did not recieve anything on campus students got. No food plan, cell phones, or internet. We paid for all that. They also said they were building a play ground for the kids which they didn't. I had a broken toilet for 3 weeks and the buildings are infested with roaches. MU is not the angel place people thinks it is. All they want is money and thats all this deal means to then they do not care about the students at all or they would offer more academics and be less sports oriented. Yes I am a MU student. No I do not agree with the way they conduct themselves.
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Ok, I just recently moved out of University Heights, as Im a Marshall student with a family, what they arent telling you is that Heights is Marshall's Family housing, and by trying to sell the property they are putting innocent Marshall Family's out of a place to live its a real cheap shot on Marshall's part because they charge 630 dollars a month for a two bedroom apartment in that complex, then turn around and sell the property without even informing their students that they wont have a place to live soon ? Its outragous!
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1.) Down with eminent domain. 2.) "Consolidation" is a four-letter word!
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