Pine Bluff renovating 5 campuses; new high school next
(World News USA)

PINE BLUFF -- Four Pine Bluff School District schools and a preschool are undergoing renovations as part of a $1.3 million, three-phase project to improve facilities in advance of the planned construction of a new high school to replace an aging facility. Phase One of renovations, which began in April, is scheduled to conclude in August, said Jeremy Owoh, who was superintendent until June 30. Phase Two is set to be performed during holiday breaks and to be concluded by early in the summer of 2021. Phase Three is scheduled for that summer. `By then,` Owoh said, `it is hoped that ground can be broken for the new high school.` The renovations are being paid for with a combination of 2 mills in...