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$4.69 million Oberon Elementary School nears completion
Students and staff at Oberon Elementary School will come back to school in a new space on Aug. 25. The new 18,000 sq. ft. school under construction on the north end of Oberon will replace the town's 100-year-old brick tri-level schoolhouse.
Groundbreaking took place in Oct. 2020, and workers managed to pour the concrete in late November. It wasn't until January, however, that the steel trusses and...