Superintendent traces Union County school history as new elementary school takes shape – Ripplinger recounts era of 25-plus community schools, integration in 1968 and the district’s coming consolidation to two campuses

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com  Union County School Superintendent Mike Ripplinger walked the Union County Historical Society through more than a century and a half of local school history on May 23, tracing the county’s path from dozens of scattered one-room schoolhouses to the single elementary school it operates today, and to the new pre-K through…