Faculty members went down each hallway at Watson Chapel High School on Sunday and anointed every classroom, office and cafeteria doorway with oil, praying over each location for teachers and students to have a successful school year, which begins today in the district.
Editor s note: The city of Pine Bluff in December approved a contract to demolish the buildings of the former Southeast Junior-Senior High School, one of two Black secondary schools before desegregation in the Pine Bluff School District. Southeast later became a junior high and middle school.