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Five years ago, on Feb. 12, 2014, we published an opinion piece complaining about the state of our high school auditorium.

The facility, frankly, had become an embarrassment. Its condition was a slap in the face to anyone, especially our young people, who had any aspirations toward quality musical or theatrical performance.

There were deep gouges in the stage floor. The stage curtains were in shreds – or nonexistent. The auditorium had no sound system at all. The portable sound systems used in it were a joke, a bad one.

Students, who had prepared with great energy for performances, wou...