Politics

Here's the 7-year timeline of how HHS construction happened

The new Hendersonville High School, a $62 million project that added new classrooms, band and chorus rooms, chemistry labs and renovated the Stillwell building and auditorium, will be dedicated Wednesday.

By Bill Moss, Published: August 1, 2022

Ninety-six years after community leaders dedicated a new Hendersonville High School on Eighth Avenue West and seven years after Henderson County commissioners, School Board members, City Council members and Bearcat alumni embarked on a protracted, often contentious negotiation of what a new HHS would look like, community leaders will dedicate the finished product.