RIPON – The crew of W.C. Maloney, Inc. has been paving the way for construction to begin soon at Weston Elementary School.
The Stockton-based professional wrecking and site-clearing contractors began demolition of the Ripon Unified campus about a month ago.
This process was one of the many moving parts of the voter-approved Measure G project.
“It’s been quite a process,” said Superintendent Bill Draa on Thursday.
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BEACHWOOD – Tom Torlakson, state superintendent of public instruction, shared a major accomplishment Friday morning with local educators, the groundbreaking for a $1.9 million special education building on the campus of a Beachwood area elementary school.
Torlakson, state Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, and Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, spoke briefly before ceremonial shovels of dirt were turned at Joe Stefani School on Ranchero Lane. All three were instrumental in getting state funding restored for the 5,600-square-foot special education facility.
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RIPON – The renovation plans for Colony Oak School have not yet reached the design phase. “We have the dollars set aside,” said Khushroo Gheyara, who is chief executive officer for Program Management Integration at last week’s Ripon Unified school board meeting. Trustees approved the hiring of CT Brayton & Sons, Inc., as part of the…
DetailsCERES — A new Stanislaus County Office of Education school for struggling students is going up on Mitchell Road, designed to replace an older site on Memorial Drive.
“Right now, we’re in portables and an old doctor’s office,” said Ceres Community School Principal Telka Walser. The as-yet-unnamed site, weather permitting, will open in January 2015, she said.
High-schoolers attending the community school and Stanislaus Arts Academy, along with junior high students at the boot-camp-style Technical Character Academy, will move to the new site initially, said Scott Kuykendall, director of the SCOE Educational Options Division.
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ESCALON – A multi-faceted, multi-million dollar renovation and upgrade for the Escalon Unified School District is under way.
Escalon High School is the first school site to be getting work done, currently in the demolition phase, said Escalon Unified School District Superintendent Ron Costa.
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TURLOCK – Thanks to agreeable weather for builders this winter, a $23 million health care center for Sutter Gould Medical Foundation remains on track to open in August. The walls are up and construction continues at Golden State Boulevard and West Christoffersen Parkway, where Sutter Gould designed the 37,000-square-foot center to provide primary care and other…
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