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Announcement Expected Soon On Training School In Plankinton

Monday, September 18, 2006

PLANKINTON (AP) -- The abandoned campus of the former State Training School might soon be bustling again.

An announcement is expected shortly about its future, though it won't be in the next few days, said Deb Bowman, state secretary of the Department of Social Services.

She refused to elaborate.

"I am not able to say, other than it will be sooner rather than later," Bowman said.

"I think it's going to be good news, although I'm not at liberty to say anything," said state Sen. Ed Olson, R-Mitchell. "I expected something to be public by now."

Aurora County State's Attorney John Steele of Plankinton, who's leading a task force charged with finding a tenant to lease the campus, also declined to comment, as did Gov. Mike Rounds' spokesman, Mark Johnston.

In February, it was announced that the state expected to make a decision about which private company would operate an intensive residential treatment juvenile program at the state-owned campus.

The formerly school for delinquent young people has been vacant for most of the past five years. The state ended its operations there in 2001 after 14-year-old Gina Score died of heat exhaustion during a forced run in 1999.

When the school closed, it ended 113 years of the state having a juvenile corrections program on the site. And 100 jobs were lost in the town of 600.

 

 

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