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Cooks Corner gym revamp is nearly one-third complete

by Larry Chowning

The Tom Carter Memorial Gymnasium in the Middlesex County-owned Cooks Corner Office Complex has gotten new windows and is in the process of getting a new floor and HVAC system. Assistant County Administrator Ann Marie Ricardi reported at the July 6 supervisors meeting that the $830,000 project is about 30% completed based on billing. (Photo by Larry Chowning)

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) learned July 6 at the board’s regular monthly meeting that renovations of the Tom Carter Memorial Gymnasium in the Cooks Corner Office Complex (CCOC) has started and are about 30% complete.

Supervisors approved in February a $830,761 contract with Trinity USA Contracting of White Stone to install a new heating and air conditioning (HVAC) system and new electrical, windows and doors in the gym that was the former home of the St. Clare Walker High School (SCWHS) Wolverines.

SCWHS was the county’s all-Black secondary school from…