The Poplar Bluff Middle School has opened a new multi-purpose outdoor space designed to create a more dynamic learning experience around the vacated facilities east of the Victory Lane campus.

A chef who apprenticed at a world-renowned restaurant has begun leading classroom activities, in addition to training kitchen workers and catering events for the Poplar Bluff School District.

Poplar Bluff Middle School administrators spent their free time over the summer adding words of inspiration and color to the long hallways of the Victory Lane campus in an effort to offer encouragement to students.