Back to school: New Brantford elementary school to open, among major projects for local school boards

The Grand Erie District School Board will celebrate the start of the school year with opening of a new elementary school in Brantford.“Students will be there on the first day of learning, Sept. 8,” Ryan Strang, manager of communication for the school board, said of Blanche E. Williams Public School located at Shellard Lane and Strickland Avenue.The province provided the school board with $39 million as part of a joint project that includes the new school and a new community centre a