This is an interior view of the Lewiston High School renovation. Submitted photo

The grand opening celebration of the Lewiston High School renovations and new two-story wing is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Thursday, March 24, at 156 East Ave., with a storm date of March 31.

All Lewiston residents and other interested people are invited to attend, according to a news release from Building Expansion Committee.

A brief program and ribbon cutting ceremony will take place in the lobby of new wing at 5:30 p.m. Music will be presented by LHS musicians, and student art and sculptures will be featured during tours of the new facilities. Refreshments will be provided by the culinary arts students and staff of The Green Ladle.

For those unable to attend, the LHS Expansion Facebook page will stream the event.

The $13.4 million renovation and expansion project, approved and supported by Lewiston taxpayers, was completed within budget, and features a new lobby and secure main entrance, gallery hallways, large instrumental and choral music rehearsal spaces, studios for fine arts education, an adult education office, special education classrooms, a new administrative suite and nurse’s office, and other elements aimed to enhance 21st-century education in Lewiston.

The open house also signals the beginning of Phase III, and exploration of revenue-raising options to construct a state-of-the-art performing arts center, which would complete the campus virtually as envisioned five decades earlier.

For more information about the expansion, email Jay Dufour, LHS assistant principal at jdufour@lewistonpublicschools.org, or Jody Dube, art teacher and the content leader for visual and performing arts at LHS, at jdube@lewistonpublicschools.org.