West Begins to Take Shape at Construction Site

Noticeable Construction has Started at Sturgis West

By Meghan Agostinelli, co-editor

All photos by Alicia Pollard, co-editor

Starting at Sturgis East, head west down Main Street, drive around the West End rotary, drive past the Melody Tent, and take a left onto a dusty road just before the Stop & Shop petrol station. You have now arrived at the future home for Sturgis West.

Using a large crane a sub-foundation panel is moved into place.

At present, the site looks like a “big jigsaw puzzle” as aptly described by Mr. Hyer. A
huge pile of sand is located in the middle of the construction site. But, the full foundation is laid in place, indicating the large footprint of what will become of the two-story construction. Piles of pipes lie in various areas throughout the site. About a dozen modules, all transported here from Pennsylvania, stand in a row. Each module is covered with white tarp, and each has been written on in red ink to indicate where the piece will later be placed.
          
Although much work remains, the construction workers are rapidly making headway. Two modules, including windows, has been put upon the foundation, and completely assembled.

Facing East: A view of the crawl space. The basement is in the distance.

West Side Story: Or, Dear Sturgis West, You're Welcome!

By Anna Campbell, staff reporter

Graphic by Ted Jameson, staff pseudonym

Ever since the announcement that Sturgis Charter Public School was going to be a plural title, we have all waited anxiously to see what spawn could come out of our neighboring school now known as Sturgis West. It’s fitting - and natural - that our converted furniture store should produce another converted-furniture-store school. Busy Hyannis Main Street separates the original East from West. It is like Berlin during the Cold War minus the barbed wire, concrete walls, nasty checkpoints, and rhetoric about the East being greater than the West.

StormWatch reporters at East decided to go and investigate the new school, and so during advisory two weeks ago they ventured across to speak to those interested in creating a West newspaper. There were almost two dozen students. The students appeared bright and inquiring, even enthusiastic. They reminded us of... ourselves. So in personality as well as origin, East and West won’t be so far apart. Unlike the two Berlins in the 1960s.