After a years-long effort to bring all the district’s buildings into the modern age, Columbia Falls High School is taking center stage at the Columbia Falls school district.

“It’s the last one standing,” said Cory Dziowgo, Columbia Falls’ superintendent.

This fall, voters will weigh in on an $84.8 million bond ask to expand and renovate the high school building. If approved, the bond’s term would last 25 years. For a home with a taxable value of $300,000, the bond is estimated to cost $216.79 in the first year.

It would pay for the school’s first major renovation in recent memory, according to high school and district administrators. The high school was first built in 1959. It hasn’t received major changes since the 1990s. In 1990, the school added on a new academic wing, and it expande

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