Construction updates per saukvalley.com:

School's out, but construction's not

The work continues this summer on a $28 million renovation project for high school repairs and a new Jefferson School gym. 

Those projects were budgeted for $21 million in 2017. with $6.85 million more tacked on this year for masonry, plaster and paint work along interior surfaces, as well as stage rigging structure work at the high school auditorium. 

At the high school, 45 new geothermal heating and cooling wells are being installed so that remaining areas of the 90-year old structure will have heating and air conditioning.  The school's northwest parking lot is being torn up to install the wells, and work on redoing the lot lot should be done by the time students return to school.

Repairs to the high school's north wing and cafeteria also are being done, as well as locker room remodels at Lancaster Gymnasium, an update to a life skills classroom, new windows in the athletics wing, and the creation of a new science classroom. 

The final touches on Jefferson's new gym, the conversion of the old gym into a cafeteria, and the old cafeteria into a classroom will be done by summer's end, along with geothermal installations.