KENDALLVILLE â A year ago, Kendallville residents were getting their first chance to wander the halls of the former East Noble Middle School.
Many marveled at how much progress had been made in just a few months to transform aging hallways and classrooms once filled with tweens and teens into something new, fresh and â perhaps most surprising to some â modern and fancy.
At the Community Learning Centerâs open house in January 2020, people were getting their first glimpse of how an old school could be given its second life.
Then, in March, came the pandemic.
All the things that the CLC was designed for â classroom learning, workforce skills training, arts and culture programming and public events ranging from speaker series to Gaslight Playhouse performances â were suddenly the type of things that werenât recommended.