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Concrete work for the new Brownfield High School has officially begun. The local concrete crew, primarily of Brownfield, began pouring the concrete for the footage of the school early Thursday morning. Pictured above is the foundation of what will soon become the High School’s Gymnasium. The concrete, mostly from Brownfield itself, is a part of the Package Two process. During the Package Two process, the crew will continue to pour large amounts of concrete on a weekly basis for many weeks to come, preparing the foundation for Package Three to begin once that job is completed. Package Three will include the construction process.
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Read moreIf there was a Who’s Who of climate change alarmists, Michael Shellenberger would be near the top of the list, right alongside Al Gore, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Beto O’Rourke, and Greta Thunberg. As president and cofounder of the Breakthrough Institute, Shellenberger was the creative brains behind a CNN documentary “Pandora’s Promise”, and was called Time Magazine’s “Hero of the Environment.”
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