Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
$4.69 million Oberon Elementary School nears completion
This photo of the new elementary school under construction in Oberon also shows the current brick schoolhouse, built in 1920, in the background.
Students and staff at Oberon Elementary School will come back to school in a new space on Aug. 25. The new 18,000 sq. ft. school under construction on the north end of Oberon will replace the town's 100-year-old brick tri-level schoolhouse.
Groundbreaking took place in Oct. 2020, and workers managed to pour the concrete in late November. It wasn't until January, however, that the steel trusses...
