Category: Community

• 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.…

• Four named to Penn Manor Alumni Wall of Honor

  Congratulations to the four new members of the Penn Manor Alumni Wall of Honor – Joshua Herr, Craig Kauffman, J. Samuel Walker and Jan Mindish. Herr (Class of 2001) is Design Director for Creative Direction for Adidas and leads the Originals team, which works with celebrity designers. Herr’s team developed XENO, a new shoe material…

• Updated design proposals for high school released

  More details on the proposed renovation and reconstruction of Penn Manor High School were shared this week with Penn Manor booster groups. District architects Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates presented the latest design proposals of what the school might look like when construction is completed, including more details on athletics and arts facilities and the exterior appearance of the…

• Two PMHS students named Agricultural Sciences Scholars

  Two Penn Manor High School juniors have been selected to attend the prestigious Pennsylvania School for Excellence in the Agricultural Sciences. Arilyn Tegtmeier-Oatman and Rylee Mellott were named PSEAS Scholars and will attend the four-week program in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State University. Only about 40 students from across Pennsylvania are selected…

• It’s a ‘three-peat’ for the Penn Manor boys’ bowling team!

  The Penn Manor boys’ bowling team has made history by winning its third straight state title! The Comets won the championship Saturday by defeating Wilson, 2-1, in the state finals at Princess Lanes in Pittsburgh. Bowler Dan Mease also competed in the individual tournament, placing 10th in the state. Last year, the Penn Manor boys…