School could teach the art of recycling

VERSAILLES A group wants to turn the old Woodford County Middle School into “The Art Village,” a center that accepts clean recyclables and then resells them to artists and art students in the region.

The former school also would display and teach art, organizers told the Versailles City Council last week.

“We’ve contacted many artists who are very excited about the prospect of maybe being able to come in and teach classes,” Marjorie Evans, an organizer of the village, told the council.

The group would first have to raise more than $1 million in grants to buy the 1927 middle school building and the property it sits on at Maple Street and Lexington Road.

In 2006, it was sold by the Woodford County Board of Education after a new middle school opened. An effort to make it part of a mixed-use project stalled after the economy soured.
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