{"id":3870,"date":"2020-09-01T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.236.132.51\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:45:38","slug":"virtual-community-meeting-on-september-3-to-discuss-arthur-a-richards-junior-high-school-demolition-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/virtual-community-meeting-on-september-3-to-discuss-arthur-a-richards-junior-high-school-demolition-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Community Meeting on September 3 to Discuss Arthur A. Richards Junior High School Demolition Project\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AARJHS-1e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Photo by the Office of Disaster Recovery<\/h6>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Virtual Community Meeting <\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>September 3 <\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>to Discuss Arthur A. Richards Junior High School Demolition Project\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ST. CROIX, USVI \u2013 The Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) Division of Operations will hold the first of several virtual community meetings at <strong>3 p.m., Thurs., Sept., 3 on the Department\u2019s Facebook page<\/strong> to share details of the first phase of the demolition of the Arthur A. Richards Junior High School, which was severely damaged during 2017\u2019s Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and ultimately received approval by FEMA for demolition and total rebuild. The $3.8 million contract to raze St. Croix\u2019s western-most school has been signed and a notice to proceed has been issued.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chaneel Callwood-Daniels, VIDE architect, the purpose of the meeting is to introduce St. Croix-based contractor Consolidated Asphalt and Civil Works, LLC to the community, share important details of the project timeline, and to\u00a0capture community feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is open to the general public, but St. Croix residents living in and around the Stoney Ground neighborhood where the school is located are urged to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur A. Richards is the first of two public schools slated to begin demolition in 2020. Charlotte Amalie High School\u2019s Buildings A and B are planned for demolition in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Department of Education\u2019s plans to build new public schools in the USVI, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschoolsvide.com\">www.newschoolsvide.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by the Office of Disaster Recovery Virtual Community Meeting September 3 to Discuss Arthur A. Richards Junior High School Demolition Project\u00a0 &nbsp; ST. CROIX, USVI \u2013 The Virgin Islands Department of Education (VIDE) Division of Operations will hold the first of several virtual community meetings at 3 p.m., Thurs., Sept., 3 on the Department\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"project_id":"","notification":"","due_date":"","status":"","show_rebuild":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-viodr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18971,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/18971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}