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Ground breaks for Colony Oak School upgrades
Colony Groundbreaking
Helping break ground for Colony Oak School upgrades are, from left, Max Medina, Ziggy Robeson, Deanna Shirlock, Chad Huskey, Cheryl Griffiths, Christina Orlando, Assemblyman Heath Flora, Caroline Hutto, Tim Hern, Khush Gheyara and Kit Oase. - photo by Photo Contributed
Ground has officially broken on the Ripon Unified multi-million dollar effort to modernize Colony Oak Elementary School on Murphy Road.Teachers, administrators and community leaders took part in the event that heralds the construction of new school buildings in an orchard at the rear of the existing campus. The project is described as a major transformation of the existing school first built in 1990 using portable structures. Bob Prewitt was its first principal having come from Ripona School.