'Where they can express themselves': Parents, students offer ideas for Highlands school modernization

Natural light, arts programming and energy efficient design were key elements residents want to see in a remodelled and rebuilt Highlands school.
About 50 people gathered in the 103-year-old junior high Wednesday evening to share how they want a consolidated school to take shape when it becomes a K-9 school in 2020. They scrawled their hopes onto sticky notes, cut pictures out of design magazines and picked interior decor preferences from poster boards.
“I hope they’ll have an enviro