Ashland School Board approves sale to Tri-County CAP

 ASHLAND-The Ashland School Board approved the sale of the old elementary school to Tri County Community Action Program at its June 3 meeting. After a non-public session at the end of the meeting, Chairman Rick Burgess briefly announced that Tri County Community Action Program had complied with the purchase and sales agreement for the old elementary school and that school district officials would proceed with the signing of the documents to transfer the building to TCCAP. This announcement brings to an end years of negotiations between the school board and the social services agency that followed votes of the 2001 and 2002 school district meetings to sell the old school to TCCAP. The school, built in 1877-8 and used as a public school until 1990, is considered one of the best Victorian era school buildings in the state. TCCAP plans to renovate the building to house Headstart and other community programs.