Evening Sun (Newspaper) - March 6, 2007, Hanover, Pennsylvania Wednesday Snow high 28 Weather A2 Ifs time for area spring sports Sports B1 Inn is 250 years old Local A3 Man crashes plane into inlaws house L Nation A2 THE SERVING THE HANOVER AND AREAS Spring Grove coach assailed Evening Sun Photo by Rasinski Scott Lease of Jackson Township speaks at the Spring Grove Area School District board meeting Monday night Lease is the father of Brittany Lease who has accused girts basketball coach Vance Myers of threatening to choke her But some stick up for girts basketball coach at meeting By PATRICK ABDALLA Evening Sun Sports Writer Citizens hoping to support or level accusations against girls basketball coach Vance Myers had a lot to say to the Spring Grove school board Monday But they were limited in what they were allowed to bring up in public concerning allegations of favoritism and that Myers twice threatened to choke senior Brit tany Lease We dont deal with person nel issues during public meet board President Doug Stein said However those who wanted to speak to the board in public were allowed to talk about the program and policies just not specific events As for specifics residents were allowed to hand in written letters and were given the chance to set up private meetings with board members in person or over the phone After the meeting Superin tendent David Strieker said the board will take any information it receives under consideration as it investigates the matter Strieker said the issue should be cleared up by the time the dis makes decisions on the ath staff in June Its really important that we treat this in the appropriate Strieker said explaining the board is trying to get afi credible information Leases parents Scott and Christine have said Myers threatened to choke Lease dur ing halftime of one game against Gburg radios coming Meanwhile polygraph sits unused at office By MEG BERNHARDT Evening Sun Reporter Gettysburg Police Chief Joe Dougherty hopes to hear from Jhe new police radios next month but the state has not set a firm timetable Police officers have been complaining about the radios for years and last year when the borough applied for a Robert C Hoffman Charitable Endowment Trust grant the application described the state of the departments communi cations equipment as Hoffman trust representatives told the borough the trust could only fund one project The radios were dropped in favor of training on new poly graph equipment which the borough has yet to During the 2007 budget deliberations last fall council members tried to find a way to fund the radios in a budget so tight they said they were forced to lay off six employees to avoid a tax increase The answer about how to fund tbe radios came from state Sen Punt An application for a state grant was submitted elec through Punts office to the Department of Economic and Community Development in early December And if the police department receives the grant Dougherty is ready to order the radios as soon as he can See RADIOS Page A7 South Western and again while putting a medal around her neck after the championship same which the Rockets lost 4936 to York Catholic While Myers admits lie did use the word choke twice he said he was joking and it was taken out of context Many of the people who spoke at the school board work shop said they were surprised they could not say all they planned on saying Once made aware of the districts policy however they worked within the See COACH Page A7 BUILDING THE BUILDERS SHOW At top Larry Shaull with help from Rick Kohter and Mike Feliciano build a wall for the Colonial Hard scapes display at the Hanover Builders Home Garden Show in the old Ames store in the South Hanover Plaza on Baltimore Street Above Chris Watson hangs pictures on a display board for Schmuck Lumber Co The show which runs 5 to 9 Wednesday through Friday and Saturday 9 to 7 features displays and demonstrations from numerous County busi nesses The event is sponsored annually by the Hanover Exchange Club For more details check out the official show guide included in todays Evening Sun Evening Sun Photos by James Robinson York St gets OK Penn Township takes first step toward traffic light at Blooming Grove Road By ASHLEY ADAMS Evening In conjunction with pending ment plans the Penn Township Public Safety Committee on Monday recommended adopting a resolution to install a traffic signal at the inter section of York Street and Grove Road And the resolution will more than likely pass since all township commissioners are members of the committee The CHR Corp is proposing to build a Rut ters convenience store with sas pumps and a car wash at lots and 1021 York St in an area zoned Business The properties are near the York Grove Road intersection A traffic study indicated a traffic signal is warranted at the intersection In addition to the signal Rutters would add a left and right turn lane northbound on Bloom ing Grove and a right turn lane east on York Street The proposed Rutters won approval during a zoning meeting in August despite protests from neighbors The convenience store and car wash are allowed in the zoned area but by spe cial exception Residents opposed to the new business said it would push more traffic onto Marietta Avenue and they were concerned with the noise Although the Rutters got zoning approval the CHR Corp has only submitted a sketch plan to the Penn Township Planning Commission Township Manager Jeff Garvick said ing a permit from the nia Department of Transportation could take a while so he was unable to specify as to when construction would begin on the intersection Ashley Adams at INDEX Business Stocks Deaths Lottery Opinion Sports State Region Television for Home Delivery Phone 6373736 Circulation Department hours 8 to 7 Sal and Sun 710 11 tin Scientists We can read your mind Brain scans may give indication as to intentions By HARM CHENG AP Medical Writer BERLIN At a laboratory in Germany volunteers slide into a MRI machine and perform simple tasks such as deciding whether to add or subtract two numbers or choosing which of two but tons to press They have no inkling that scientists in the next room are trying to read their minds using a brain scan to figure out their intention before it is turned into action In the past experts had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements in advance But researchers at Berlins Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now for the first time identified peoples decisions about how they would later do a mental activity inthis case adding versus subtracting While still in its initial See SCAN Page A8 HISTORIC TALKS AP Ktm Kye Gwan North Koreas toad negotiator ML shakes hands with Dr George D Schwab right president of the Committee on American Foreign altar on North Koreas nuclear program See A2 HANOVER Hanover Concrete 17331 Men ri 61 JO
