BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – A Northampton County school is breaking ground on a new building.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame High School is going to begin construction on it’s new Academic Fieldhouse for students and athletes.<\/p>\n
69 News Reporter Cierra Genelle got a look at the construction site in Bethlehem Township.<\/p>\n
“I think it helps the students to grow,” said Matthew Delaney, a senior at Notre Dame High School.<\/p>\n
The school is going out with the old and in with the new.<\/p>\n
“I actually went to high school here in the 90’s, and it looked and smelled the same as it did when I was here in the 90’s,” laughed Notre Dame High School alumni Jacque Flynn. “A new building will replace a building that was bult in the 70s,” Flynn said.<\/p>\n
Flynn is digging into her roots. The former student works for the school’s Development and Alumni Relations Department.<\/p>\n
She said the building is going to become an upgraded workspace to better suit the success of students and staff going forward”<\/p>\n
“As students, it helps us become better at all that we do,” said Delaney.<\/p>\n
A ceremony was held on the Crusader’s home turf to break ground on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Current students poured into the stands to show their support. They will soon walk the halls of the three story, 40,000 square ft. building.<\/p>\n
“We’re calling it the ‘Academic Field House’. We might eventually name it after one of our generous donors,” said Jaclyn Friel, Notre Dame High School Principal.<\/p>\n
“100% of our students will actually be using this building with the classrooms in there, and then we’ll have facilities for all of our athletes,” said Flynn.<\/p>\n
Flynn said the doors will open in the 2026-2027 school year and it’s all thanks to the community support.<\/p>\n
“We’ve actually been working on this for about 18 months, and we’ve raised $8.2 million,” Flynn said. “Years of planning and dreaming, and now it’s actually happening.”<\/p>\n
Because the road to success is always under construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – A Northampton County school is breaking ground on a new building. Notre Dame High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,233],"class_list":["post-28263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}