When the pedestrian stoplight on North Cooper Street gave the signal to walk Friday morning, it announced the crossing out loud: “Webb Elementary School.”
Mayor Jim Ross and four eighth graders stepped off the curb together.
Three years ago, the students built bridge models in a gifted-and-talented fifth grade class and cold-called the mayor’s office with a proposal: Make crossing the street safer. Part of that idea became reality Friday when the four students walked across a street that they often dreaded crossing…