Diocese makes the move seven years after demolition plan was met with protest, gives Wabash Valley Trust time to save architectural features. Plus, what to know before the Christmas Parade.
The houses were demolished with no plans for rebuilding? That’s the first I’d heard that. I always thought they were “in the way of something better” in the eyes of St. Mary’s. Makes it especially difficult to understand, considering the corner house was in good condition other than the usual (and oftentimes strategic) deferred maintenance.
With a Board who’s Hell bent on “community feedback”, sounds like her hands are tied. Supposedly the survey found that a majority of the community wants it to stay. Ridiculous as that is…
You understand the building is used correct? Would you like to host the displaced and national/world recognized robotics teams at your home? Or if you want to stick to athletics perhaps you have the space to install the simulator and practice putting green for the girls/boys golf teams and batting cages for baseball/softball.....
Which of these is a core mission of a shrinking, landlocked school district with a budget calamity looming?
Which teachers will you dismiss to pay for golf practice etc?
The School Board is supposed to make hard decisions that a subset of people oppose. I do not see a lot of evidence for saying no, dating back to large, bond-funded outlays on WLIS, the Cumberland cafeteria, and performance spaces in the high school. They were nice upgrades, sure, but I am going to come down hard on the side of paying teachers to teach kids to read, which I have certainly found useful over the years, and in general expenditures that favor the 3 Rs over the kinds of things that count at the margin for top-ten school rankings.
Let's not forget, this isn't their first. The church has become a habitual anti-preservation felon — a chronic, unrepentant destroyer of historic homes, proving that recidivism isn’t just for criminals; institutions can be serial offenders too. At this rate, the only thing they’re building is a legacy of rubble, sanctified by a smug sense of entitlement that places their whims above the neighborhood they claim to serve. How ironic is it that the neighborhood is stuck with the name of the institution that it is destroying?
The houses were demolished with no plans for rebuilding? That’s the first I’d heard that. I always thought they were “in the way of something better” in the eyes of St. Mary’s. Makes it especially difficult to understand, considering the corner house was in good condition other than the usual (and oftentimes strategic) deferred maintenance.
So the diocese tore down an historic house for no reason other than they could ? Wow.
Maybe Ms. Witt can focus some of that destructive energy on knocking down the old Happy Hollow School building.
With a Board who’s Hell bent on “community feedback”, sounds like her hands are tied. Supposedly the survey found that a majority of the community wants it to stay. Ridiculous as that is…
You understand the building is used correct? Would you like to host the displaced and national/world recognized robotics teams at your home? Or if you want to stick to athletics perhaps you have the space to install the simulator and practice putting green for the girls/boys golf teams and batting cages for baseball/softball.....
Which of these is a core mission of a shrinking, landlocked school district with a budget calamity looming?
Which teachers will you dismiss to pay for golf practice etc?
The School Board is supposed to make hard decisions that a subset of people oppose. I do not see a lot of evidence for saying no, dating back to large, bond-funded outlays on WLIS, the Cumberland cafeteria, and performance spaces in the high school. They were nice upgrades, sure, but I am going to come down hard on the side of paying teachers to teach kids to read, which I have certainly found useful over the years, and in general expenditures that favor the 3 Rs over the kinds of things that count at the margin for top-ten school rankings.
Let's not forget, this isn't their first. The church has become a habitual anti-preservation felon — a chronic, unrepentant destroyer of historic homes, proving that recidivism isn’t just for criminals; institutions can be serial offenders too. At this rate, the only thing they’re building is a legacy of rubble, sanctified by a smug sense of entitlement that places their whims above the neighborhood they claim to serve. How ironic is it that the neighborhood is stuck with the name of the institution that it is destroying?