Groundbreaking for the new Bristol Aggie

The event was attended school personnel, elected officials and governmental representative. In attendance were (from left to right) Assistant Superintendent/Principal Kevin Braga, School Building Committee member Stephen Hughes, Representative Alan Silvia, Representative Steven S. Howitt, Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts School Building Authority James MacDonald, Bristol County Agricultural High School Superintendent Adele G. Sands, Massachusetts Treasurer and Receiver General The Honorable Deborah B. Goldberg, Bristol County Commissioner John T. Saunders, Bristol County Commissioner John R. Mitchell, President of the Bristol County Agricultural High School Board of Trustees Kenneth Raymond, Representative Patricia A. Haddad, Senator Marc R. Pacheco, Senator Paul R. Feeney, Representative Norman J. Orall, Representative James K. Hawkins, Deputy Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director Jack McCarthy.

Posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:00 am

Bristol Aggie students, staff, and community members gathered to show their appreciation for the 107-year-old campus and celebrate the kick off the $103 million construction and renovation project. On Friday, September 20, Superintendent Adele Sands and Massachusetts

Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, along with Bristol Aggie Board of Trustees, the Bristol County Commissioners and many legislative friends from throughout the Southcoast were on campus for the ceremony. The first phase of the project will be the construction of the Center for Science and the Environment. A state-of-the-art education facility that will house the Science Department, Natural Resource Management program, Animal Science Program and the new Environment Engineering program.

“It has been over 50 years since Bristol Aggie has had a major construction or renovation project, said Board of Trustees President Ken Raymond. Many hours of have been invested into this project to be sure that this is the agricultural school of tomorrow.
Superintendent Adele Sands spoke about the import role that the community has in this project. “Without county-wide support for this project, it would never have come to fruition and I am here, representing our staff and student in saying “thank you” to everyone who helped shaped this project by attending planning meetings, voting to commit town and city resources getting the word out about the value of vocational/agricultural education and recognizing that there is not other place in the Commonwealth like Bristol Aggie. Thank you.,” said Superintendent Sands at the ceremony.

Assistant Superintendent Braga, “Through the dreams and aspirations of our students, we were able to develop our scope of work for the renovation and expansion. Even though today marks the official start of the expansion and renovation, our students and staff have been involved in this process for the past 3 years.”

In addition to the Center for Science and the Environment, the scope of the project includes renovations to Gilbert Hall that will provide modern classrooms and a new home for the Arboriculture program, a new student common, renovations to the Agricultural Mechanics building and a new Landscape Design and Contracting building.
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About Bristol County Agricultural High School
Bristol County Agricultural High School is an agricultural-vocational public high school set on over 200 acres of land Dighton, Massachusetts. The school has 7 agricultural offerings for their 450 students from across Bristol County and beyond: Large & Small Animal Science, Agricultural Mechanics, Arboriculture, Landscape Design & Construction, Floriculture, and Natural Resource Management.