Author: Brian Wallace

• PA Secretary of State addresses PM students

  

  Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele visited Penn Manor High School Thursday to talk to students about the importance of voting. Aichele heads the Pennsylvania Department of State, which administers Pennsylvania’s electoral process and oversees the licensing of nearly 1 million business, health care and real estate professionals. She urged students who are eligible…

• Tech-ed teacher Crowther receives state citation

  

  Congratulations to Nick Crowther, who has received another honor for his outstanding teaching skills. Crowther Tuesday received a state citation from the Pennsylvania Legislature commending him for earning the Elementary Teacher Excellence Award from the Technology and Engineering Educators Association of Pennsylvania. State Representatives Ryan Aument and Bryan Cutler presented the citation to Crowther Tuesday…

• PM dedicates the new Hambright ES

  

  With the ringing of a historic bell, Penn Manor School District dedicated its new Hambright Elementary School Sunday before a crowd of more than 100 dignitaries and other guests gathered in the school’s bright, airy multipurpose room. Millersville University President Dr. John Anderson was keynote speaker for the ceremony, which marked the opening of the first…

• Crowther earns PA technology education honor

  

  Penn Manor technology education teacher Nick Crowther has received the Elementary Teacher Excellence Award from the Technology and Engineering Educators Association of Pennsylvania. He was nominated for the award by Krista Cox, principal of Eshleman Elementary School, where Crowther teaches applied engineering to students in grades one through six. He also teaches at Letort Elementary…

• Keller gets All-America jersey

  

  It’s official: Matt Keller has accepted the jersey he’ll wear when he represents Penn Manor in the Under Armour All-America football game in January. The senior long-snapper for the Comets received his jersey Tuesday, when the Under Armour All-America Jersey Tour made a stop at the Penn Manor High School library. Joining Matt during the…

• Students, parents get first glimpse of Hambright

  

  More than 200 students, parents and family members got to explore Penn Manor’s brand-new school Thursday as Hambright Elementary School hosted an orientation prior to Monday’s start of the new year. Visitors got to tour classrooms in the school’s three color-coded wings, meet teachers, administrators and other staff and check out the brightly lit music and art…

• Penn Manor welcomes new staff members

  

  Penn Manor School District welcomed more than 30 new teachers and nurses to its staff this week during induction activities at the high school. Eleven secondary teachers have joined the staff for the 2014-15 school year, along with 18 elementary teachers and two elementary nurses. The new staffers were hired this summer following the retirement of…

• Patriotic painting earns PM student $10,000

  

  Penn Manor High School student Alessandra Levato has earned a $10,000 scholarship by winning the 2013-14 Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest. Her oil painting, “To Be An American,” placed first among the more than 4,000 entries submitted in the nationwide contest, sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The painting depicts a line…

• PM graduate Herr named state FFA secretary

  

  Recent Penn Manor High School graduate Victoria Herr has been named FFA State Secretary for 2014-15 and will join six other FFA officers statewide to represent the organization at events across Pennsylvania. Herr, who graduated June 3, was chosen as secretary during the State FFA Activities Week and Convention, held June 10-12 in State College, where…

• It’s the end of an era for Hambright’s bell

  

  The end of the school year was the end of an era for the old iron bell at Hambright Elementary School. When students Ashley Seiger, Luz Agosto and Delaney Mercado rang the bell on the final day of the school year June 9, they were continuing a longstanding tradition that dates back to 1936, when the bell…