Junior Block News Today

Pennsylvania is a mystery. One side of the commonwealth doesn’t like the other. The middle doesn’t like either side. It’s a place full of contradictions and cognitive dissonance. Like America itself, and it’s gorgeous, filled with history, and a couple hundred years worth of grudges. PA is forever a work trapped in progress, but it has a chance to surprise even its most hardened cynics.

Warwick Smith/Stuff Woodville School’s junior block, built in 1879, is New Zealand’s oldest classroom still in use, but significant earthquake strengthening and renovation costs may soon see it mothballed. Generations of school children have whispered of the ghostly nun that rings the Woodville School junior block bell, but now the bell may be tolling for New Zealand’s oldest classrooms. The buildings been part of Woodville School since 1879, two years after the school opened with a roll...