Author: Brian Wallace

• Coaches Association names Soto Field Hockey Coach of the Year  

  Penn Manor coach Matt Soto has been named Field Hockey Coach of the Year by the National High School Coaches Association. “We are extremely pleased to honor Coach Soto,” said Eric Hess, Executive Director of the Association. “Coach Soto has not only established Penn Manor as one of the top programs in Pennsylvania, but also as…

• Penn Manor students use new technology to create virtual tour of Lancaster farming

  Penn Manor High School students have created a virtual reality tour using technology that will allow people from across the globe to learn about farming in Lancaster County. Penn Manor was chosen to participate in a beta project for Google Tour Creator, a new software program that enables schools and other institutions to create virtual…

• PMHS earns fourth straight Silver Medal, No. 1 ranking in county

  For the fourth year in a row, Penn Manor High School has been honored with a Silver Medal from U.S. News & World Report and is ranked the No. 1 high school in Lancaster County! Penn Manor is ranked No. 36 in Pennsylvania, and No. 1,335 in the United States, based on the magazine’s 2018…

• Manor MS student earns Scholastic Writing poetry award

  Manor Middle School eighth-grader Ella Layton has earned a Scholastic Writing Award for a collection of poems she wrote over the past year. Ella chose five poems – “Unsaid,” “Hesitation,” “Bind,” “Paradise” and “Mess” — to submit to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. She earned a Silver Key, the second-highest award, for the…

• Penn Manor honors 2018 retirees, Outstanding Educators & Employee

  Penn Manor honored 18 retirees with nearly 450 years of  combined service May 2 during the 39th annual Employee Recognition Dinner in the high school cafeteria. Attendees watched a video presentation of comments (plus one song-and-dance number!) by 12 of the retirees — Jeff Roth, Marilyn Springer, Donna Brady, Anne Butterfield, Cheryl Dearolf, Frank Dell’Estate, Sue Frese,…

• Scout projects make Penn Manor schools more welcoming

  Penn Manor’s elementary schools have become more welcoming to students this year thanks to a group of young men with a couple of things in common. Noah Johnson, Matthew Julian, Dylan Terry and Stephen Marquette all are members of Boy Scout Troop 268 in Millersville. And they all recently completed Eagle Scout projects at Penn…

• Manor FFA members help kick off 10 Million Trees campaign

  Six Manor FFA members on April 24 helped kick off of an effort to plant 10 million trees over the next seven years to help reduce pollution into the Chesapeake Bay. The students gathered at a Manheim farm, along with state and federal officials, to plant the first 100 trees in the Keystone 10 Million…

• Penn Manor HS students place first in Sea, Air & Land Challenge

  A team of Penn Manor High School students placed first in the Sea, Air and Land Challenge, held April 24 at Lancaster Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13. Moses Buckwalter, Graham Thomas, Maxwell Kreitzer, Wesley Kendig and Thomas Hockenberry – all freshmen – won the air portion of the competition, which required teams to design, build and fly drones over a simulated wooded…

• Penn Manor students bring home state TSA awards

  Congratulations to Marticville Middle School student Jaden Smith, who placed first in Pennsylvania in the Children’s Stories category of the Technology Student Association State Conference, held April 18-21 at Seven Springs Resort. Jaden was among the 14 Penn Manor students who finished in the top 10 in the competition, which included more than 1,900 of…

• Unified Track & Field team provides new opportunity

  Penn Manor hosted the first Unified Track & Field meet in Lancaster County Friday, kicking off a new program that enables students with intellectual disabilities to compete in organized sports. Hempfield, McCaskey and Warwick also have teams under the first-year effort, which is governed by the Special Olympics and endorsed by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association.…