Category: News

• Penn Manor seniors honored with athletic awards, scholarships

  More than 60 Penn Manor High School student athletes were honored May 16 during the Senior Sports Awards Social in the high school cafeteria. In all, more than 40 awards were presented, including Coach of the Year to Larry Bellew and Assistant Coach of the Year to John Terscha. The top athletic awards went to: Outstanding Penn Manor Male and Female Athletes — Anna Sugra, Emma DeBerdine, Hunter Enck and…

• Six students to address Class of 2019 at June 4 commencement

      Six student speakers have been named for Penn Manor High School’s 2019 commencement, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, at Franklin & Marshall College Alumni Sports and Fitness Center.     The speakers are Derek Davis and Ryan Glenn, co-valedictorians; Sameeha Hossain, salutatorian; Jared Stephan, senior class president; and Cole Shenk and Erica Shaub.…

• Seven Penn Manor students win awards in journalism contest

  Congratulations to the seven Penn Manor elementary students who won awards in the LNP/Lancaster Online Journalism & Design an Ad Contest. Students from Hambright, Eshleman and Central Manor received honors in the contest, which was open to all students in Lancaster County. Here are the winners and their teachers: Writer’s Choice, Third Grade – Morgan…

• Penn Manor students celebrate their heritage through food

      Students at two Penn Manor schools recently celebrated their heritage with food.     Penn Manor High School students got to share the foods of their native countries with fellow students, teachers and staff during the third annual Multicultural Day, held May 2 in the high school gymnasium.     On May 9, Eshleman Elementary School…

• Penn Manor Quiz Bowl captain receives national award

      Penn Manor Quiz Bowl team captain Connor Mayers has been honored with a national award from the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence.     Connor, a high school junior, is recipient of the Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Award, given each year to a member of the Quiz Bowl community who “embodies, by example, the ideals…

• Penn Manor retirees and Outstanding Employees honored at banquet

  Penn Manor honored 15 retirees with more than 360 years of  combined service during the 40th annual Employee Recognition Dinner in the high school cafeteria on May 7. Attendees watched a video presentation of comments (plus one spoof of a TV show) by seven of the retirees — Ellen Altdoerffer, Page Lutz, Deb Meckley, Cheryl Shaffer,…

• Three PM schools participate in technology showcase in state Capitol

     Congratulations to the students, teachers and staff members who represented Penn Manor so well at the Student Technology Showcase, held Monday in the state Capitol in Harrisburg.    Projects completed by students at Hambright and Martic elementary schools and Manor Middle School were selected for the event, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications and…

• PM students place in the top 10 in state TSA competition

     Eight Penn Manor students placed in the top 10, including two who qualified for national competition, at the recent Technology Student Association (TSA) State Conference at Seven Springs Resort.   The students were competing against more than 1,900 of the brightest STEM students from 130 TSA chapters across Pennsylvania in a variety of events…

• Fine Arts Day celebrates its 30th year

      Hambright Elementary students and staff enjoyed Fine Arts Day – what many call “the best day of the year” – on April 26.     This year’s daylong celebration of the arts was even more special because it marked the 30th year for the event, which was established in 1990 to give students and staff…

• Project helps Hambright teacher earn National Geographic certification

      Hambright Elementary School teacher Katie Lutz has been certified as a National Geographic Educator, thanks, in part, to a project that she and her fifth-graders completed to better understand the natural world around their school.    Called “The World in My Backyard,” the project uses virtual reality technology to tell the story of the…