Category: Community

• Field hockey team earns commendation

  

  Penn Manor school board Tuesday formally honored the Comets field hockey team with a commendation for “its outstanding performance and for the team’s distinction as PIAA State Champions.” Penn Manor won the Pennsylvania AAA Championship Nov. 15 after playing to a hard-fought 1-1 tie with Palmyra. After two exhausting, scoreless overtime periods, Penn Manor and Palmyra…

• Former Penn Manor leaders honored

  

  Former school board members and administrators were honored Tuesday at the Penn Manor School District Leadership Dinner. Held in the Manor Middle School cafeteria, the event brought together a wide range of former school leaders with a cumulative 115 years of experience, dating as far back as the 1960s. The guests included 11 former school board members, two…

• Wert honored for 16 years of school board service

  

  Congratulations to Donna Wert for being named to the Honor Roll of School Board Service for her 16 years serving on Penn Manor school board. Fellow board member Rich Frerichs, president of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, presented Wert with a certificate of appreciation at Monday night’s school board meeting. “It’s been a pleasure and an honor…

• Manor FFA members earn national awards

  

  Manor FFA and several of its members earned national awards recently at the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Ky. Three members who graduated from Penn Manor High School in 2012 – Tyler Bauman, Alex Cantey and Caleb Hess – received the American FFA Degree. Less than 1 percent of all FFA members earn that recognition,…

• School Performance Profiles released

  

  Penn Manor schools had mixed results on School Performance Profile academic measures released this week by the state Department of Education. The district’s secondary schools posted gains from last year, while elementary school scores declined. Of note, Manor Middle School received the highest SPP score (89.6) of all middle schools in Lancaster County. SPP scores…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Sixth speaker added for June 3 commencement

  

  A sixth speaker has been added to the program for Penn Manor High School’s 2014 commencement, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 3, at Franklin & Marshall College’s Alumni Sports and Fitness Center. The new speaker is Laura Bleacher, the co-salutatorian, along with Justin Gaukler, of the Class of 2014. Lauren Longenecker has been named…