Category: Events

• 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…

• Penn Manor earns state field hockey title

  

  Congratulations to the Penn Manor field hockey team, which won the Pennsylvania AAA Championship title in field hockey after playing to a hard-fought 1-1 tie with Palmyra Saturday. Penn Manor was down 1-0 late in the game when Cassie Kline scored a goal with 4 minutes to go, sending the game into overtime. After two…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…