NORTHAMPTON — The horticulture building at Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, a barn that had been extended over the years, was inadequate even before a 2022 fire.
Now, the public high school with nearly 600 students has a plan — and an estimated price tag of about $6.8 million — to replace the building. But the plan along with a fundraising goal of about $760,000 to close an expected funding gap, said Richard Aquadro, a former local building contractor and member of the school’s board of trustees now working as a resident engineer on building projects at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
