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Students and staff settle in at new Oberon School

For the first time in nearly a century, elementary students from Oberon and the Spirit Lake Reservation are enjoying a brand new school.

If not for the new Oberon Elementary School, 2021 would have been the old building's 100th anniversary as a school. Instead, students and staff are enjoying all the advantages of a facility not built before the Great Depression.

The 18,000 sq. ft. and roughly $5...