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Apr. 4—PLAINS TWP. — The effort to get a 10-year partial property tax break for the development of the former Valley Crest Nursing Home site reached Wilkes-Barre Area School Board Thursday.
Wilkes–Barre Area School District is an urban public school district located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The district encompasses approximately 123 square miles. The district includes the city of Wilkes-Barre as well as smaller surrounding municipalities.
G.A.R. was both a junior and senior public high school, offering education to students in grades 7–12. It was named for the Grand Army of the Republic. [2] In 2021, it was consolidated with other high schools in the area to form Wilkes-Barre Area High School. The school continues to operate, now as a middle school for grades 6th-8th.
The school has space designated as fallout shelter. [32] It was flooded in 1972 from Hurricane Agnes and survived. Attached to the school was Wilkes-Barre Memorial Stadium, which contained a track and American football field used for all of Wilkes-Barre Area School District's public high schools and Holy Redeemer High School. [10]
Established in 1890 as Wilkes-Barre High School, the current school structure was scheduled to be built on the original school's site in 1905, but due to a flood—which flooded the entire basement and first floor—building had to be restarted. The building was opened unofficially on September 11, 1911, and formally dedicated in October 1912.
Wilkes College became Wilkes University in December 1989, and the school officially received university status a month later, in January 1990. [8] [14]Wilkes University opened the School of Pharmacy in 1996, [17] and in 1999, through a donation from Mrs. Geraldine Nesbitt Orr, the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy was established.
It was built in 1929, and is a three-story, red brick and cut stone building. It has a three bay front and measures 63 feet, 6 inches, wide and 124 feet, 2 inches deep. The school closed in 1971, and parish in 1994. Between 2000 and 2003, the building was renovated into 24 one-bedroom apartments. [2]
In January 2007, Bishop Joseph Martino announced the consolidation of four schools into a central Catholic high school for Luzerne County. On February 27, 2007, James J. Redington, then-principal of Seton Catholic High School in Pittston, was selected to be the first principal of the new Holy Redeemer High School. The school opened on July 1, 2007.