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Article: Willow Street residents: Keep school open
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- February 16, 2008
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CINDY HUMMEL
Willow Street residents Monday night asked the Lampeter-
Strasburg school board to reconsider plans to close Willow Street
Elementary and send its students to a new school now under
construction in Lampeter.
"Moving from Willow Street to Lampeter will take away the most
valuable thing I have, and that is time with my children," a Willow
Street parent and youth pastor told the school board.
The pastor said he, like other residents, bought homes in Willow
Street because of the school. He prefers that his children have a
short walk rather than a long bus ride to school.
About 60 residents attended the public hearing Monday on the
proposed ...