The following snippets of history are compiled by volunteers of the Windsor Museum & Historical Society. The museum is open, free to the public, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and by appointment. The museum is located in the historic Hembree House at 9225 Foxwood Drive. Learn more about Windsor history at windsorhistory.org.
September 7, 1988
Schools open to increased enrollment/construction woes
Teachers and students returned to school yesterday under a shroud of fog that quickly lifted to very hot sunshine by afternoon, revealing smiles of renewed friendship and longing glances back at the summer of ’88. Area schools were brimming over with students with as many as 300 new students registering for school at Windsor. A new school, Brooks Elementary, opened for first-day classes. Located in the midst of ongoing residential construction at Brooks Road and Arata Lane, the new school is comprised of all portable classrooms. Delays in sewer connections forced school officials to open the new campus with only portable toilets and wash basins. The sewer was expected to be connected later Tuesday. A new telephone also was reported to be in service, but the telephone number could not be learned from the phone company Tuesday.
September 21, 1988
Windsor PTA miffed at not being able to use new multi-purpose room
Windsor PTA Legislative Chairperson Paulette Carroll is upset the PTA and the League of Women voters are not allowed to use the new multi-purpose building at WES for their school board candidates night. Carroll said, “I think it’s a crock they (the school district) can’t have the building available to the community for one night.” Carroll said during the first week of school she applied for a use permit, but was told last week by a school secretary that no one outside the school could use the multi-purpose room. “I think it’s pretty crummy they don’t consider the PTA a school related function,” Carroll said. Carroll said that later when she talked to school superintendent Norman Ginsburg that Ginsburg told her the real reason the building is not available is that it has not received is final approval.
September 14, 1988
BZA rules against Windsor billboards
County zoning officials ruled last week that a pair of Windsor billboards are illegal and must be removed. The ruling is likely to be appealed, setting up the possibility of a lengthy legal battle with the county over the signs along Highway 101 just north of Windsor. Despite arguments by an attorney for Veale Investments claiming the signs were legal, the Board of Zoning Adjustments voted 4-1 to deny a use permit for the signs following a public hearing last Thursday. The signs were constructed last November near Arata Lane after Veale Investments bought two parcels and two previous signs were removed overnight.
September 28, 1988
2nd Immersion K-class approved, two week delay creates confusion and reshuffling kids upset parents.
After creating controversy about an additional Spanish Immersion kindergarten class, at their last meeting, the Windsor Union School Board, with almost no discussion, unanimously approved the inclusion of a second immersion kindergarten at its most recent meeting Tuesday Sept. 20. The vote of approval brought a round of applause from the parents and teachers who have fought hard in support of the program. An additional immersion kindergarten does not mean an additional kindergarten, but a reshuffling of current kindergartens. Many parents and teachers were upset with the reshuffle. Cheryl Ziff, an outspoken proponent for the immersion program, said she found the adding an additional immersion kindergarten a “hollow victory.” Ziff said what bothered her most was the reshuffling of the children. “This whole thing could have been avoided if the school board had listened to the advisory councils,” she said.
