By Charla Wurm-Adams
cwurm@wbcowqel.com
The Crestline school district’s Board of Education met in special session Wednesday evening and kept the meeting short and sweet. What was short about the meeting was there was only one item on the agenda. The sweet part is what that one item means.
The board approved the sale of property on which the district’s South School had sat before demolition. Mike Zappa submitted the winning bid.
Board member Robert Salvati explains.
“It was an old building, South School that we tore down and there was land left and we auctioned off the land and there was 16.44 acres left,” Salvati said. “It went for auction last Saturday and we sold it for $5,000 an acre for a total of $82,250.”
The property will be converted to farmland. The proceeds from the sale will be used to help build a new Hutson football stadium at the site of the new school.
The track at the school is already in place and rings the new football field. However the district wants to build a stadium to replace the current one which is named for Merle Hutson, the legendary hall of fame coach who is responsible for the community’s reputation as the Cradle of Coaches.