In two weeks, the Beaumont Independent School District will have an opportunity to convince appellate justices that a lower court erred in enjoining the district from razing South Park Middle School.
Forcing the Beaumont Independent School District to comply with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Jerry Jordan, editor for The Examiner, sought and received a temporary restraining order stopping the district from holding a board meeting last Thursday.
Nostalgic South Park graduates will see their former school stand for at least a few more months, as Judge Bob Wortham has granted the Beaumont Heritage Society's request for a temporary injunction.
A hearing over the future of South Park Middle School is attended by those who want to save the building as well as those who want to see it replaced. Every "intelligent tax payer" living in Beaumont should be "offended" that the school district wants to raze a structurally-sound building and replace it with a more expensive facility, said one local engineer at a recent hearing.
Local residents hoping the courts will intervene and stop the demolition of South Park Middle School will have to wait a little longer for an outcome, as a hearing on the matter slated for Tuesday, July 14, has been reset.
Citizens gathered at South Park Middle School on July 1 to protest the demolition of the 86-year-old school. The Beaumont Heritage Society filed for a temporary restraining while it works preserve the building.
Hoping to save South Park Middle School from being bulldozed, the Beaumont Heritage Society filed and obtained a temporary restraining order Wednesday, July 1.