Category: News

• Nearly 200 attend Dinner & Show at PMHS

  

  Nearly 200 senior citizens turned out Thursday night to enjoy “Dinner and a Show” at Penn Manor High School. The free program is open to Comet Classic cardholders and guests, who enjoyed a chicken pot pie dinner and a free performance of the fall play, “Almost, Maine” in the high school auditorium. Many thanks to…

• Letort receives National Blue Ribbon honor in D.C. ceremony

  

  It’s official – Ann Letort Elementary School is 2019 National Blue Ribbon School! The school was formally honored Friday, Nov. 15, during a Blue Ribbon Schools ceremony at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., near Washington, D.C. Letort was honored, along with 361 other public and private schools, by the…

• Family Fun Night held Nov. 12 for Penn Manor immigrant families

  

     Nearly 60 immigrant students and their family members attended the first of three Family Fun Nights on Nov. 12 to help them transition to life in Penn Manor School District.    The event, held at Hambright Elementary School, included dinner, bingo, arts and crafts and raffles. Attendees also learned about Penn Manor schools and…

• Manor FFA teams place in the top 20 nationally

  

     Two teams of Manor FFA members placed in the top 20 nationally during the National FFA Convention & Expo, held Oct. 30 to Nov. 2 in Indianapolis.    The Manor FFA Dairy Cattle Evaluation and Management team of Colt Barley, Alyssa Chalfant, Madeleine Denlinger and Berkee Perry placed 8th in the nation, earning a…

• HS and middle school students learn about construction, manufacturing careers

  

     Fifty Penn Manor middle and high school students recently got a first-hand look at careers in manufacturing and construction while participating in two local events outside of school.    Nine students from Manor Middle School and six from Marticville visited Armstrong Flooring on October 4 as part of Manufacturing Day. They toured Armstrong’s Columbia…

• Leilani Torres named 2019 Homecoming Queen

  

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School’s 2019 Homecoming Queen, Leilani Torres. Leilani was chosen from among the eight members of the Penn Manor homecoming court at halftime of the Oct. 18 football game against Hempfield High School. Last year’s queen, Janae Beiler, passed down the crown during a ceremony on the field. Leilani is the…

• Forty-eight students inducted into PMHS National Honor Society

  

  The Penn Manor chapter of the National Honor Society welcomed 48 new members during an induction ceremony Oct. 2 in the high school cafeteria. To qualify for NHS, the Penn Manor High School juniors and seniors had to maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.85 and demonstrate strong leadership, service and character traits. The…

• Fifteen PMHS students qualify for County Chorus

  

     Fifteen Penn Manor High School students have qualified to participate in the Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators Association County Chorus Festival in January.    The students auditioned Sept. 28 at ELCO High School before a panel of judges along with other students from public and private schools throughout Lancaster and Lebanon Counties.    All 15 Penn…

• PMHS student writes chapter in open-source technology book

  

     Not many high school students can boast that they’re published authors, but Penn Manor’s Max Bushong can make that claim at the ripe old age of 15.     Bushong, a sophomore at Penn Manor High School, wrote a chapter in the new book The Open Organization Guide for Educators about his experience as a…

• Letort Elementary named a 2019 National Blue Ribbon School

  

     Penn Manor School District’s Letort Elementary has been named a National Blue Ribbon School for 2019 – one of just 362 schools in America to receive the honor.    The Blue Ribbon awards were announced Thursday, Sept. 26, by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.    Letort, with 312 students in kindergarten through grade six, was honored…