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Bishop Maginn HS Will Re-locate

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas
Published March 25, 2015 at 10:10 AM EDT
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A  landmark Albany school is moving to smaller quarters.

Saying it's time to stop the financial hemorrhaging, Albany Roman Catholic Diocese Bishop Ed Scharfenberger has decided the troubled Bishop Maginn High School will leave its current home, move to the former Cathedral School on Park Avenue, to "build a new beginning" with perhaps new administrators and board members.

Vincentian Institute and Cardinal McCloskey High School merged in 1977, creating “Maginn” in the former McCloskey building.

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The "new" school was doomed to meet the wrecker's ball to make way for the South Mall project.

The Times Union says the decision behind the latest move resulted from the findings of a task force formed last summer. The school serves 138 students in a building designed for 1,200. It opened after the original McCloskey was torn down as part of the South Mall construction.

The diocese has yet to decide whether or not to increase tuition.

                                                                                            
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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.
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