Construction of two new school buildings is well underway for the Oak Harbor School District and local taxpayers are not footing the bill, a boon for the school district unlikely to happen again.

“The government’s not going to come to the rescue of the community again,” Superintendent Michelle Kuss-Cybula said. “This is a twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Along with architects, engineers and other school officials, Kuss-Cybula gave U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen a tour of the Crescent Harbor Elementary rebuild on North Whidbey off Crescent Harbor Road on Wednesday. That building, as well as the new Forest Vista Learning Center on Regatta Drive, formerly the HomeConnection/Hand-in-Hand Early Learning Center, were funded entirely by state and federal grants amounting to more than $130 million.

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