Workers find plaque at Wright Elementary

But no time capsule found

 

Last updated 8/23/2012 at 8:55pm

Roger S. Lucas

School district workers Brady Black, left, Randy Bowman and Pat Sherrett dig up what they thought was a time capsule, only to find a brass plaque on a cement block commemorating the planting of a tree in honor of America’s bicentennial.

On Monday, workers dug up what they thought would be a time capsule at the condemned A. E. Wright Elementary School. However, it really was a copper plaque that was placed at the school near a spruce tree planted April 27, 1976, in honor of the country’s bicentennial.

The district had heard that a time capsule had been placed at the school. Workers dug up an area near the flagpole and later d...



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