Maple Lawn, the city-owned house and grounds on Salem Avenue, has been home to a preschool for a long time, but not much longer. The Albany school district has paid for the operation since 2021 but will stop doing so when this school year ends.
It’s been a long tradition in Albany schools that the grounds be open to the public when classes are not in session, like during the summer. Lately at least two school yards were locked down tight instead, but now the district says they’ll be open again.
The fate of Albany’s historic Central School appears unsettled once again now that the school board has received new estimates of what it would cost to make improvements.
Last week a reader wondered if I knew whether “Fir Grove school is planning to reopen?” I didn’t, but I do now, and the short answer is that while it’s already in use, it’s not going to reopen as an elementary or primary school.
The historic Central School building in Albany will get upgrades in three major areas of concern, the board of directors of Greater Albany Public Schools has decided.
More often than I’d like, stories on this website start with a photo of my bike leaning against a fence or a locked gate. Here’s one more.
Why GAPS is replacing turf on two fields
It seems like only yesterday that I reported on South Albany High School’s football field getting artificial turf. But in fact it was a dozen years ago, in 2014.
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