Category: Community

• Penn Manor bowlers are state champs!

  The Penn Manor boys’ bowling team this weekend did something no other boys’ team in Lancaster County has ever done — won the state bowling championship! The boys defeated Conrad Weiser, two games to zero (210-165 and 167-125), to win the title Saturday after besting 10 other teams to reach the finals at North Versailles…

• PM Ed Foundation awards $46,000 in grants

  Manor Middle School teacher Chris Telesco wanted to take several male students on field trips as part of a program called Fusion that matches boys from broken homes with teacher mentors for after-school activities. But the cost of bus transportation and admission fees was prohibitive. Enter the Penn Manor Education Foundation, which awarded Telesco a…

• Old friend honors former Hambright principal

  Bob Stoner surprised an old friend Wednesday, when he presented him with two unusual gifts in honor of his long ties to the former Hambright Elementary School. Stoner gave Gerald Sheckart a brick from the original Hambright building, constructed in 1936, along with a framed photo of the school that appeared in Life magazine 80…

• PM’s 1:1 program earns national honor

  Penn Manor School District has been named a “District of Distinction” by a national magazine for its open source 1:1 Student Laptop Program. The school district is one of 30 honored this month by District Administration magazine under a program that recognizes school districts that implement innovative ideas that yield measurable benefits. At Penn Manor, every student in…

• PM students earn multiple TSA awards

  Forty-two Penn Manor high school and middle school students won multiple awards at the recent Pennsylvania Region 2 Technology Student Association competition at Conestoga Valley Middle School. Vying against hundreds of students from 16 neighboring school districts, TSA students from Manor and Marticville middle schools and Penn Manor High School competed in a variety of…

• Hambright staff get a piece of the school’s past

  

  When Tracy Stevens drove past the site of the former Hambright Elementary School recently, she felt sad. The school that she and her children had attended was being demolished to make way for a senior care center. So Tracy had an idea – why not see if she could salvage some bricks from the old school…

• 23 Penn Manor students earn FFA awards

  

  Manor FFA member Katey Bleacher was named winner of the Keystone Star in Agricultural Placement at the recent Pennsylvania Farm Show. The statewide honor is one of several awards earned by 23 Penn Manor High School students during the event. Katey and 13 other Manor FFA members also received their Keystone Degrees, and nine first-year members…

• PM students to perform in music festivals

  More than two dozen Penn Manor high school and middle school students will be performing over the next month in music festivals in Lancaster County. Sixteen students will perform in the Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators’ County Band Festival concert Jan. 23 at Conestoga Valley High School. Eleven Penn Manor students will participate in the LLME County Orchestra Festival…

• HS implements calling system for absences

  

  Beginning Wednesday, January 6, Penn Manor High School will be using an automated calling system to alert parents/guardians of students who are absent from school. The calling process will begin at approximately 9:30 a.m. each morning.  The purpose of the call is to notify parents/guardians that their student is not in school on a particular day.…

• PM community steps up to help the needy

  

  The holidays will be a bit more special for more than 170 families in need, thanks to the generosity of the Penn Manor community. Toys, gifts, personal supplies, clothing and food are being distributed this week by the Penn Manor Family Fund at Millersville Brethren in Christ Church to 125 families experiencing economic difficulties. Also…