A Friday night negotiation session recently wrapped up between the Palmerton Area School District and the Palmerton Area Education Association.

"While there has been no resolution, we left the door open to negotiating all weekend," said Tom Smelas, association president.Teachers have planned to strike Monday, but both sides remain hopeful it can be avoided.The district put out a letter Thursday preparing the community for the potential strike.In the event of a strike, all Palmerton schools would be closed for its duration.Palmerton students who attend Carbon Career & Technical Institute, an Intermediate Unit program or any other out-of-district program would continue as scheduled.According to the letter, the district would "make every effort to keep extracurricular programs operating," and "all existing use of facility requests would be honored."The association has started a negotiations Facebook page,

https://www.facebook.com/Palmerton-Area-Education-Association-Negotiations. The district has information on its website,

www.palmerton.org.