{"id":9162,"date":"2017-09-22T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2017-09-21T00:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:53:45","slug":"grand-junction-school-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/grand-junction-school-to-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Junction school to be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GrandJctSchool.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><em>July 5, 2013: <\/em><\/strong><em>G<\/em><em>rand Junction school.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In less than a decade, the East Greene school district will go from a full K-12 community to nearly erased from the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>The entire complex in Grand Junction, with a 1915 building at its core, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenecountynewsonline.com\/2017\/08\/23\/grand-junction-school-to-be-demolished\/\">will be demolished<\/a> after the city council determined it could not maintain it. The small town doesn&#8217;t need a community center, because a smaller one was built not too long ago. (I suspect, but cannot prove, that &#8220;school closes within 5-10 years of a community center being built&#8221; has happened a few times in Iowa.) According to the <em>Jefferson Herald,<\/em> a $1.5 million renovation was done in 2012 but the facility needs upgrades to the heating system.<\/p>\n<p>This decision follows East Greene&#8217;s consolidation with Jefferson-Scranton and closure of this building (as Greene County Intermediate) last school year, with <a href=\"http:\/\/greenecountynewsonline.com\/2017\/07\/20\/new-classrooms-likely-wont-be-ready-for-start-of-school\/\">an addition built at Jefferson<\/a> instead.\u00a0The only piece of East Greene that will be left is the gym in Rippey, after the main building there was torn down.<\/p>\n<p>It is an absolute crying shame that this building is going to be lost, but there&#8217;s no way of getting around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 5, 2013: Grand Junction school. In less than a decade, the East Greene school district will go from a full K-12 community to nearly erased from the face of the earth. The entire complex in Grand Junction, with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/grand-junction-school-to-be-demolished\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}