It is learned that the Stokes school authorities will include in the budget which is now in preparation necessary funds for the construction of a school building at Sandy Ridge. An effort was made last year to secure a new building there but nothing was accomplished.
The writer this week had the pleasure, or rather displeasure, of taking a look at the present building at Sandy Ridge, about which there has been considerable talk recently. We were informed by the best citizens of that community that teachers dare not hold school in the building on windy days for fear it will collapse. The building was erected by the late J.E. Shelton and other Sandy Ridge citizens from private subscriptions a good many years since, when the attendance was small. It was later purchased by the county and has been used since—that is, when the weather is good and the winds are calm. The building is located on an excellent site of four or five acres, but, even if the building was new, it would be entirely too small to accommodate the large number of pupils. It is the opinion of some citizens at Sandy Ridge that that excellent community will not have any school at all the coming school year unless the Stokes authorities provide a better building.
From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, May 12, 1926
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