On January 25, citizens and board members of the Hazleton Area School District will attend a dedicatory ceremony for the new Hazle Elementary School.
What makes this more than local Hazleton news is that Hazle is the former Hazleton High School, an imposing building long known as "the Castle." It was saved after what seems to have been a long and fierce battle to preserve it, when it was realized the space it encompassed was desperately needed.
In a January 15th Standard-Speaker article by Sam Galski, Hazleton Area School Board President Rick Morelli commented, "After a long time of battling back and forth with the architect and contractors, I'm pleased to see the finished project... I think the public is going to be very impressed with the building."
And he added, "We did not have to rebuild this. But, there's no question in my mind--we made the right direction."
Bethlehem Area School Board, please copy.