MIDDLE SCHOOL EXODUS CREATES SPACE CRUNCH

From: Roanoke Times & World News | Date: October 13, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

BLACKSBURG -- When Margo Easter learned she would have to move her music school from the old Blacksburg Middle School, she said it sent her into kind of a panic.

Now she is much more at ease, having relocated the Performing Arts Institute of Virginia to Blacksburg Christian Church on Watson Street.

The church has ample parking and plenty of room for group or individual lessons. The rent hasn't required the school to raise fees to its more than 200 students.

"I couldn't ask for anything more," Easter said.

But not all of the nonprofit groups that relied on the former middle school can say the ...

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