Work on School Project to Begin Next Month


Plans for an expansion and renovation at Provost Public School estimated at just under $4 million is expected to get underway as early as April.

Tenders for the project will go out within a week (or may have already been by the time this is printed) that will see a larger “two station” gym take the place of the existing one.

CTS (Career Technology Studies) classes will be moved from the building east of the M.D. offices in town and incorporated into classrooms at PPS.

The Provost Public School Council had been concerned that there would be overcrowding if the CTS classes were incorporated into the plans. A new community group was formed on January 17 to look into that issue. The group met six times since forming and discussed the situation two times with representatives of the Buffalo Trail Division. The new community group disbanded on February 28 but the original school council will continue to operate, said spokesman Agnes Whiting.


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Nett’s 1919 Downtown Property Being Sold

One of Provost’s oldest original business operations is being sold as the owners are retiring.

Owners of Nett’s Variety and Clothing store, Wilf and Edith Nett will mark the end of an era when the property and building is sold to Tom Ward of Provost effective March 15.

Merchandise will soon be cleared out by an auction sale.

Wilf’s father, Peter B. Nett bought the Main Street property and a small store on the site in 1919. He was a jeweler (born in Minnesota in 1892) who served the community for 55 years. In 1944 the original store was sold to Les Yeates who had the building moved. The contents of Nett’s store was moved temporarily to Lindberg’s store on the other side of Main Street and a new building was put up on the original property in 1944.

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