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The project faced numerous challenges, including rising costs and soil contamination, since voters approved bonds in 2020.

Community leaders and residents celebrated the opening, emphasizing the importance of education and the new facility's state-of-the-art features.

The new school includes modern amenities like a teaching kitchen, updated labs, and a new auditorium.

NEWPORT – Scores of residents and generations of alumni and graduates who walked the halls when the now-defunct Rogers High School building was erected over half a century ago, watched as the next generation cut the ribbon in front of their new school on Friday, Aug. 22.

The new Rogers High School building is now, finally, open.

“I cried when I first saw it,” resident Aida Neary said. “Everything is

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