Talk:Hurley High School

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Copied from User talk:Materialscientist.[1] You reverted my changes to Hurley High School erroneously. I grew up in the Hurley area and graduated from there in 1989. The school was built and opened in 1968 to replace the older high school built in 1948. The old high school became D.A. Justus Elementary at that time, which was destroyed in the 2002 flood. The high school's mascot is the Hurley Rebels and the original colors were black and gold before changing to grey, blue, and red in 1968. You're not going to find any of this first-hand information in a book or a webpage since the school is very remote and little has been written on it in the way of "official" history. Reverting so please leave my edits alone. Xenophon71 (talk) 06:16, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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