May 15, 2011: Former Panorama Elementary building in Jamaica.
The Panorama school district needed five different votes in the 1990s to reach a 60% supermajority on a bond issue to build a new elementary school, and it was finally dragged across the finish line in September 1996 (Guthrie Center Times). A significant reason for the repeated rejection likely was the fact that a new elementary would result in closing schools in both Jamaica and Linden.
Jamaica was the last building in use from the Yale-Jamaica-Bagley school district — the other two closed in 1989, when YJB and Panora-Linden merged — and the opening of a new elementary in Panora in 1999 was indeed the death knell.