LEWISTON – A public meeting will be held Wednesday, Oct. 1, to hear what Pettingill Elementary School neighborhood residents think should happen to the old school when it’s vacated.

Rules say that in order for the building to remain with the Lewiston School Department it must be used for an educational purpose, Superintendent Leon Levesque said. Otherwise, the building will have to be given to the city.

The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Pettingill School gym.

The new school, the Raymond A. Geiger Elementary School, will open in the fall of 2009.

It is being built because Pettingill is too small and too old. Part of it was built in 1929, a wing was added in the 1950s. The $21.9 million school was approved overwhelmingly by voters in a special election in February 2007.

– Bonnie Washuk