Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
HURLEY SCHOOL District metals teacher Jake Hostetler, left, discusses benefits of a planned building expansion project Monday with the school board. Mike Fontecchio, second from left, Rick Swartz and district business manager Bree Lombardo listen.
By RALPH ANSAMI
HURLEY - The Hurley School Board Monday agreed to seek bids for expanding the K-12 school.
The school board could act on accepting bids at its February meeting. District administrator Chris Patritto was instructed to get the ball rolling to solicit bids.
"This could be a catalyst for people wanting to stay here," school board president Joe Simonich, of Kimball, said of the potential of the expansion area.
"This gets my support 100 percent," he said.
The board did not talk numbers or size of the project Monday, but it originally discussed a 4,300-squar...
