Users grade Little Compton modular classrooms
LITTLE COMPTON — There’ve been issues with mud, lockers and intercoms but students and staff at Wilbur & McMahon Schools say their temporary home is working better than some had feared. It’s now been a few weeks since 275 Wilbur & McMahon students and all their teachers left the old school building, now under renovation, [...]
Read More →Wilbur & McMahon closes; classes move to modulars
LITTLE COMPTON —The long-awaited shift from the old Wilbur & McMahon School to the modular classrooms about 300 yards to the west has been underway for days, but began in earnest Monday, the first day of the winter break. An e-mail announcement from the school department went out on Saturday, Feb. 16, that read: “The [...]
Read More →Little Compton school renovation project turns corner
LITTLE COMPTON — Ending months of uncertainty, the renovation of Wilbur & McMahon schools has finally reached two benchmarks that signal a new beginning for the much-delayed project. First, a date has been set — Monday, February 25 — for the move of about 275 students from the old building into temporary classrooms. Second, [...]
Read More →Bids exceed budget for Little Compton Wilbur McMahon School project
LITTLE COMPTON — All four companies competing for the contract to renovate Wilbur & McMahon School have submitted bids that exceed — by amounts ranging from $600,000 to $2.6 million — the amount budgeted for the work. Bids from the four pre-qualified general contractors were opened in public in Town Hall at 2:15 p.m. last [...]
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