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COLIN SNYDER of Salisbury Township, above, uses oil paints on canvas to paint a scene he photographed at Pulpit Rock, Monhegan Island, off the coast of...

The board last night tabled a motion by Director Colin Snyder to build a high school on land yet to be acquired, convert Emmaus High School to a junior high, and make Emmaus Junior High an elementary school. Snyder said his proposal is a low-cost compromise of the Blue Ribbon Task Force that formed nearly two years ago after directors tabled a previous plan that included the construction of a new high school. A task force subcommittee also recommended that a high school be built, along with an elementary building, and that other facilities be renovated. [Mary Lou Stefanko], who voted against tabling the motion with Augustus Martin and Ted Dobracki, said a vote to table the motion would be construed as an attempt to conceal her vote on the high school issue.

\"If we renovate, we have to be concerned about asbestos,\" he said. \"If we build an addition and it penetrates the building, we have to worry about asbestos.\" [Colin Snyder], who discussed the material's history, said a strand of asbestos is 1,200 times smaller than a human hair and can remain in the air for many hours. About 170,000 primary and secondary schools installed asbestos as an insulate between the 1950s and 1970s -- a period when many East Penn schools were built or remodeled, he said. Phil Tortoretti, a New Jersey attorney who specializes in asbestos- related cases, said he's represented people who've developed cancers from living in a town with an asbestos factory.

Board Chairman Colin Snyder, of East Penn School District, considered doing away with the closed sessions following complaints by The Morning Call that the practice may have been in violation of Pennsylvania's Sunshine Law. [Thomas Traud], solicitor for the 21-member joint operating committee, said it is his position the once-a-year announcement made the executive sessions comply with the Sunshine Law. Vo-tech executive director Joseph Rothdeutsch said the board had been holding pre-meeting executive sessions every meeting since the vo-tech opened in 1971. He said conversation was limited following the passage in 1986 of the Open Meeting Act or Sunshine Law.

That plan calls for two new schools - Macungie for 450 K-3 students, and a new [Jefferson] for 650 4-6 grade students. Lincoln, Wescosville, Kings Highway, Lower Macungie, Alburtis and the new Macungie schools would house grades K-3, and Shoemaker and the new Jefferson would house grades 4-6. A student \"feeder\" pattern also was discussed for the first time for both of those options. Under the new option, students from Lincoln, Kings Highway and Wescosville (K-3) would move to Jefferson (4-6), and students from Lower Macungie, Alburtis and the new Macungie school would feed into Shoemaker. Under the K-2 option, students from Wescosville (K-2) would feed into Lower Macungie (3-6) or vice versa; students from the new Macungie and Alburtis (K-2) would feed into Shoemaker (3-6), and Lincoln (K-2) would feed into Jefferson (3-6).

Markley's 6-2, 6-4 win over Lancaster Mennonite's Lucas Jemison on Wednesday afternoon at the Hershey Racquet Club vaulted the No. 6-seeded Cougars into today's District 3 Class AA boys team tennis championship match against eight-time defending champ and top seed Wyomissing.

The Garden Spot program has been on the rise the past few seasons, as seniors like Hurst, Kurtz, Derrick Esh, Jacob Mast, Santiago Escobar, Jared Rider, goalie Jon Kauffman and others have gained experience.

Marsh retired eight in a row after that before a base hit by Cocalico cleanup hitter Harven sandwiched in between two walks loaded the bases to open the fourth.

COLIN SNYDER LNP CORRESPONDENT A rather unlikely scenario played out during Thursday evening's girls lacrosse matchup between a one-loss Lampeter-Strasburg squad and a middle-of-the-pack Elizabethtown team that was coming off a 20-goal loss to Manheim Township.

COLIN SNYDER LNP CORRESPONDENT Even when your defense has been as good as the Millersville University men's soccer team's defense has been this season, one goal can be too much to overcome.