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AN END OF AN ERA
Last operational country school in Barton County to be sold
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Shady Grove School west of Great Bend stopped serving as a school in 1991. It most recently housed Barton County Special Services, but BCSS has moved into town. - photo by DALE HOGG Great Bend Tribune
When the Unified School District 428 School Board Monday voted to sell Shady Grove School, there was one nay vote. Casting that vote was Kevin Mauler.Mauler, a farmer who was born and raised west of Great Bend, attended school at the small, red-brick Shady Grove. Still sentimental, he just couldn’t get himself to support getting rid of the building.“That was a pretty hard thing to do,” Mauler said.