Lawsuits fly over school construction project

La Conner School District’s months-long wrangling over workmanship with the contractor hired to build the new middle school has finally landed in court.

Since last summer, at the district’s monthly board meet-ings, project manager Bryan Young has been bringing up various “punch list” items that he was working to get Babbit Neuman Construction Company to address.

The upshot is that the school district has still not accepted the new La Conner Middle School building, which opened Sept. 2, as a completed project. That’s because the district says there are construction deficiencies — includin...