Superintendent Shawn Yates stands outside Edmunds Central Elementary at dismissal recently. In order to be proactive against possible future closure, the school district is discussing an $8.5 million building project that would include tearing down and replacing the two buildings in this photograph, which were built in 1952 (single-story elementary building) and 1919 (original, two-story schoolhouse) with new classroom space, a cafeteria and a competition-size gym. A 1965 building (not pictured) would remain. Photo by Sandra Beyers