Building
 on August 21, 2025
During a tour of facilities at the North Union High School before regular meeting action, members of the board of education looked at the current state of many of the building’s workspaces while exploring options for expansion. Pictured above from left to right, board president Brian Davis and member Matthew Hall talk in the upstairs portion of the Ag shop.(Gazette photo by Kyle Meddles)

Building expansion talks pause at NU

By By Kyle Meddles, Richwood Gazette 

Art room set to be a starting point in conversations

The North Union Board of Education has chosen to take inventory of current school spaces before considering any full-scope building additions at the high school.

At the regular meeting of the board on Monday, members of the school board took a tour of the facilities at the high school, with a main focus of mapping out and exploring options for expansion projects. A theme of the tour became the idea of “underutilized space,” in reference to different rooms in the school building.

“I think we’ve established with the walk-through’s that, before we knee-jerk or before we go too far down the lines of brainwork… we really have to see what we have,” Board…

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