 A new high school building, replacing the 1954 building, is under construction and is expected to be completed by 2007.A modern bridge was constructed in 1980 over the Red River to replace the Index Bridge, built in 1919.Four-lane highways have encouraged easy access to Texarkana, now only a twenty-minute drive from Ashdown, which now has a bypass bridge to shorten the distance from Foreman to Texarkana.