Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
With students in new middle school, H-M-S facilities project now complete
H-M-S Middle School students stop at their lockers prior to first period on Monday morning. It was the first day of class for the 2021-22 school year and the first day ever for the new 5-8 grade building.
Last week's ribbon cutting ceremony at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn's new middle school was a bit surreal for Superintendent Patrick Carlin.
"Under construction" is all the administrator has ever known since he joined H-M-S in 2018. With the junior high in Sanborn now open and the district's massive facilities upgrade project complete, he's breathing a sigh of relief.
"It's exciting to have it all come to culmination," he said. "We've been doing it for three years, and to see it all come together has been awesome."
The new 5-8 grade building welcomed students for the first time on Monday, Aug. 23. T...
