Category: Community

• 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…

• Eight named to District Band, Chorus, Orchestra

  

  Eight talented students will represent Penn Manor High School when they participate in the upcoming District 7 Orchestra, Chorus and Band Festivals. The students qualified by scoring well in an audition process that involved more than 900 students from Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties. Penn Manor will be represented in…

• Manor FFA members earn agronomy awards

  

  Members of the Manor FFA chapter at Penn Manor High School earned awards recently in the National FFA Agronomy Career Development Event, held during the National FFA Convention & Expo in Louisville, Ky. The team, led by adviser Neil Fellenbaum, was awarded a Bronze emblem. In addition, individual members competed against 140 other participants for…

• Sale of Hambright nets $1.5 million for district

  

  Penn Manor School District this week completed the sale of the former Hambright Elementary School to Signature Senior Living LLC for approximately $1.5 million. The sale marks the end of the school’s 80-year existence, said superintendent Mike Leichliter. “While many students and teachers have fond memories of the old building, the school district is pleased that…

• Penn Manor HS student builds new Marticville sign

  

  When Gabe Kubicar learned that Marticville Middle School wanted to upgrade its roadside sign to display announcements for parents and students, he had an idea. Why not build the school a new sign as his Eagle Scout project? That’s exactly what the Penn Manor senior – who attended Marticville – did. With help from fellow…

• Manor MS named ‘High Achievement’ school

  

  Congratulations to Manor Middle School, which was recently recognized as a “High Achievement” Title I school by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Manor earned the honor by scoring among the top 5 percent of Title I schools in the state on math and English language arts PSSA tests and Keystone Exams. Manor Principal Dr. Dana…

• Leichliter testifies on substitue teacher shortage

  

  Penn Manor superintendent Dr. Mike Leichliter testified Monday before a state congressional panel on the impact of a statewide substitute teacher shortage. Leichliter spoke before a hearing of the Senate and House Education Committees, which are gathering information on the issue. He talked about how the shortage creates a hardship for students and staff and…