The Sugar Loaf Elementary School community recalled its 56-year history, celebrated its current successes and looked expectantly to a hopeful future.
Students, staff and parents joined administrative leaders, including two past Sugar Loaf principals in a celebration at the end of May as the school prepares to end its final year of service.
Most students and staff will relocate to the new Pershing Park Elementary School, which opened in January and will consolidate with Sugar Loaf this August.
Principal Violet Simmons and former principals Stephen Caruso and Karl Bradley reminded those in attendance that schools are not defined by a structure, but by the people who care and serve one another.