Voters say ‘YES, YES, YES’

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April 2, 2019 - 8:39 PM

USD 257 elementary students soon will have a new school to call home.

District voters overwhelmingly approved construction of a new elementary school for preschool through fifth-grade students, at a cost of $25.5 million.

The school will consolidate Iola’s three existing elementary schools — McKinley, Jefferson and Lincoln. Voters favored the school proposal 1,212 to 669.

Voters also said “yes” to a new science and technology building at the Iola High School campus, for $7 million. The building will offer science, engineering, family and consumer education classes and…

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