Category: News

• 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.…

• Central Manor student artwork in city gallery

  

  The artwork of 16 Central Manor students has been selected to appear in a new show, “Inspired by the Masters,” opening Jan. 1 at Red Raven Art Gallery in downtown Lancaster. The students’ work, based on the artwork of Jackson Pollack, Gustav Klimt, Albrecht Durer and Jim Dine, will be displayed alongside the works of…

• 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…

• PMHS students win business awards

  

  Two teams of Penn Manor students qualified for state competition, and two other teams and one individual student won awards in recent Future Business Leaders of America competitive events. The team of Cameron Steele and Jordan Wakefield placed first in entrepreneurship, and the team of Ryan Miller, Joey Cadmus and Jeremy Miller placed first in…

• 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…

• HS Master Plan presentation Nov. 18

  On Wednesday, Nov. 18, the district will hold its third public presentation on the Penn Manor High School Master Plan, beginning  at 7 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Penn Manor School Board is considering four renovation/construction options for the high school and is seeking public input on how to proceed. The school, originally built in the…