Author: Brian Wallace

• Penn Manor in compliance with state requirements, audit finds

  The Pennsylvania Auditor General’s Office has determined that Penn Manor School District has complied with all requirements following a Limited Procedures Engagement Audit of district records and procedures. The audit covered the period from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2015, and covered the areas of internal controls, budgeting practices, the Right to Know Law and…

• Bowling team earns second straight state title

  For the first time in history, a Penn Manor athletic team has won back-to-back state titles. The boys’ bowling team accomplished that feat when it beat Ephrata, 194 to 160, to earn the PIAA Bowling Championship title March 18 at Dutch Lanes in Ephrata. “It was more exciting to win the second one than the first…

• Roth Named Region V Athletic Director of the Year

  Penn Manor athletic director Jeff Roth has received yet another honor from his peers. Roth, who has served as Penn Manor AD since 2001, will be honored this week as Athletic Director of the Year for Region V of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Directors Association. Region V includes schools in Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata,…

• Penn Manor students earn scholarships to study abroad

  Two Penn Manor High School students, Callie Clonch and Kiera Kirchner, have earned scholarships that will enable them to study in France and Belgium next school year. The Speedwell Foundation Study Abroad Scholarships, totaling about $16,000 each, are offered each year to 20 Central Pennsylvania high school students. Callie, a sophomore, and Kiera, a junior, have…

• Secretary Rivera visits PM students, staff

  Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera visited Pequea Elementary School Thursday to honor a couple of outstanding staff members and sit in on a sixth-grade class. Rivera congratulated bus driver Tracy Musser for starting a program that loans books to students to read every day on the bus or at home for pleasure. Musser, whose…

• PMHS students earn high marks in TEAMS competition

  Penn Manor students placed second and fourth in two divisions of the Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TEAMS) competition, held Feb. 28 at Warwick High School. The theme of the competition was “Engineering the Environment,” and students had to answer 80 multiple-choice questions on such topics as smart cars, biomimetic fluid dynamics and…

• 32 PM students earn TSA technology honors

  Thirty-two Penn Manor students have qualified to compete on the state level after their strong showing at the Technology Student Association regional conference, held Feb. 11 at Conestoga Valley Middle School. Eleven Penn Manor middle school students and 28 high school students competed against their peers from Lancaster, Berks and Lebanon counties in more than…

• Eshleman fifth-graders’ project earns IU 13 STEM award

  A team of Eshleman Elementary School fifth-graders has earned a third-place award in the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 STEM Consortium Student Competition. The team of Keira Stigelman, Lydia Meier, Elizabeth Pursel and Maggie Garvey designed and built a prototype of a “Sound Sleeper,” a pillow headband designed to be worn while sleeping to block out…

• Bus driver gets kids to read on their ride

  When Tracy Musser was growing up, she didn’t like to read and was horrified when asked to read aloud in school. Now an avid reader with two children of her own, Musser doesn’t want other youngsters to experience the difficulties she endured. So every day, she gives students riding bus No. 274 a choice of…

• Penn Manor MiniTHON raises $21,000 for Four Diamonds

  Thank you, Penn Manor students, staff, community members and businesses for making the 2017 Penn Manor MiniTHON such a success! The fundraising drive and dance marathon, which concluded Friday, raised $21,000 — exceeding last year’s total by more than $1,500. The money will go to Four Diamonds, an organization that provides support to pediatric cancer patients and…