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Hard to say goodbye During her visit to the campus last week, she returned to the school's playground where she remembered being terrified to climb the steel jungle gym, which still stands today. She recalled that instead of hesitating, she climbed the bars and carried herself across the tall threshold, proving herself to her fellow classmates.   “I felt something come over me,” Ogilvie-McClain said. “I am at the end of this road, and I don’t want it to end. My heart does not want to say goodbye. I think back over the years, so many of our friends have gone but God had left me fo...

The Daily Herald Maury County Board of Education Chairman Michael Fulbright has successfully led a charge to put a temporary hold on the sale of Columbia’s historic McDowell Elementary School. The board, which declared the property as surplus during this month's regular meeting on Tuesday, mostly agreed with the chair's proposal by voting in approval of holding off on selling the property until August.  Board member Austin Hooper cast the sole dissenting vote on the motion to postpone the sale, while Marlina Ervin cast the sole vote in opposition of declaring the property as surplus. F...

The Daily Herald As Maury County Public Schools prepares to take bids for the sale of the historic McDowell Elementary School property, some members of the Maury County Commission are considering asking the school board  for the first chance to acquire the site. Ahead of the school board’s Tuesday regular meeting, Maury County Commission Chairman Don Morrow — stressing that he does not speak for the full commission — told fellow commissioners that he plans to approach the school board to reiterate the county's interest in the property. “It may be worth a visit from a district c...

The Daily Herald The Maury County Board of Education is moving forward with a plan to sell the historic McDowell Elementary School property. The elementary school, the longest continually operating campus in the county, will shut its doors at the end of this school year with a plan of transferring students and educators to other campuses across the district. The plan follows the board's September 2020 decision to close the campus, which has accrued more than $5 million in needed repairs to keep the facility open for the coming school year and a total of $29 million over the course of...

Someone that you love so much? we're not saying good-bye, auntie. but farewell, until we see you again in our final resting place. thank you. [ applause ] >> please receive the musical tribute from miss franklin's son, my friend. we lived eight blocks from each other. we went to mcdowell elementary together. clai clarence, edward, and myself. we played little league baseball