By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer
Friday, January 7, 2011
Joe O'Neill, a superintendent with Skanska, and Carol Cowan, project manager with the Hernando County Schools facilities department, get the view from the roof Friday as they look at the K-8 school being built just north of Weeki Wachee High on U.S. 19. The elementary portion of the school is set to open in the fall.
BROOKSVILLE — LaShawn Rush's family may soon be caught between two schools and a hard place.
Rush, who lives near Hexam Road in northwest Hernando, has a fifth-grader and two fourth-graders at Pine Grove Elementary in Brooksville. Next year, the older student will move to West Hernando Middle, right next door to Pine Grove.
Under a proposed rezoning plan, the fourth-graders next year would attend the K-8 school under construction on U.S. 19, north of Weeki Wachee. Only the school's ...