Status of the Hanson School

March 15, 2014

The classroom building now houses the district maintenance headquarters offices on the top floor and the first floor is be used for computer repair and training for PC use by the technology support group of the district.  A new bathroom has been installed in the first floor cloak room (former student sales area).

The gym is currently full of surplus furniture after donation to the five towns in the district and non-profit organizations. A citizen subcommittee working with the district's Facilities Committee has been charged to find a use for the gym annex. Please contact Carolyn Biegel at cbiegel@bonnyeagle.net for more information or to get involved.

CHARM (Community Heritage Alliance of Rural Maine) is a local non-profit organization which is leading the effort to work cooperatively with district 6 and find a use for the gym for the benefit of our community. Visit their web page at mainecharm.site90.net  

When Abigail Kovacs, a 5^th grader at the new Buxton Center Elementary School heard upsetting rumors in August of 2010 about the possible fate of her old Hanson School, she was reminded of the book below, which she has read in her new school library and recommended that we read! From the mouths of babes….

“The Keepers of the School” by Andrew Clements

Ben and Jill discover first hand just how dangerous a little knowledge can be!

Benjamin Pratt’s school is going to be bulldozed to make room for an amusement park—a dream come true or a nightmare?

Jill starts digging for answers. They find things that the people with money and power don’t want them to see. Could the history hidden within an old school building be powerful?

Andrew Clements writes, “Old things are like little chunks of history. If I pick up a hammer that my dad used, it’s like we’ve got a connection. Whenever I use that Stanley chisel my older brother gave me almost  40 years ago, I think about him. And when I write with that pen my mom gave me in the 1930’s, there’s a link—nothing weird or supernatural, of course—just satisfying and sort of comforting.