Somerville Working To Rid Edgerly School Of Asbestos Before School Begins For Winter Hill Students

By Brandon Truitt, CBS Boston

August 18, 2023

SOMERVILLE - The outside of the Edgerly looked more like a hazmat scene than a school Thursday afternoon. Restoration crews have worked for weeks to rid the school of asbestos and get its classrooms ready for students. The first day of classes are scheduled to being in less than two weeks.

Students from the Winter Hill Community School are being moved there for the academic year, after a piece of concrete fell from the school's ceiling in June. No one was hurt, but the city closed the school out of an abundance of caution.

"I kind of just want to go to the same school," said rising fourth grader Conrad Cruikshank Higgins. "I really liked the old school we were going to, but I felt like it would be better and that's why I want them to rebuild it because it closed down because some of the ceiling fell down."

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