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Contact: Mayor Travis Copenhaver 304-445-2916 / Margaret Hambrick 304-646-2439

Repurposing Old AHS Ceremony In a short ceremony Tuesday morning, 12-13-2022, Greenbrier County Schools broke ground for the "new" Alderson Elementary School in the re-purposed Alderson High School and Alderson Junior High School. Today's groundbreaking ceremony at Alderson Elementary marks the official project kick-off. A $14,419,000 innovative adaptive reuse, renovation, and restoration of the existing Alderson Community Center/former Alderson High is anticipated to open its doors as a state-of-the-art school for Alderson students in the fall of 2024. Many thanks to the WV School Building Authority for dedicating $9,919,000 to the project and to leaders of the Alderson Community Center and the Town of Alderson for partnering with GCS to make the project possible. We appreciate the GEHS JROTC and all who came out this morning to celebrate this momentous occasion! A new area will soon come to fruition at Alderson’s old high school building where hundreds of children will join the ranks of the 1644 graduates that preceded them from 1914 to 1968.

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