"Montgomery Students to Head County’s YDTF Organization” Congratulations to the following Montgomery High School students who were voted in as Youth Development Task Force officers this morning. YDTF is a county wide organization whose purpose is to continuously support, monitor, work, and raise awareness on mental and physical health issues in Lycoming County youth. Montgomery will now hold three of the five officer positions in the county organization. Congratulations to these students and to Montgomery’s advisor, Ms. Lynette Murray. President – Camden Dalrymple Vice President – Olivia Walk Treasurer – Rhyleigh Woods

Jr/Sr HS December Students of the Month

Lycoming College is providing a free Financial Aid Night on January 20 at 5:30 at the Krapf Gateway Center, Lycoming College. You will learn about the new FAFSA, gain insights about scholarships and grants, discuss loan options, and explore best practices for financing a college education. Contact Mrs. Liscum, school counselor, at dliscum@montasd.org or at 570-547-1608 ext. 1115 for more details about how to register for this event.

"Boys’ Varsity Wrestling Clinches Mid-Penn Title” The boys’ varsity Wrestling team earned the Mid-Penn title last evening with a dominating win over Sullivan County. Congratulations to the wrestlers and coaches on your accomplishments.

"Stewart-Williams Having a Breakout Season for the Raiders”🏀 https://youtu.be/LM0d4831wY4

"Stoltzfus Reaches 100 Wins” Congratulations to Manny Stoltzfus who earned his 100th win in wrestling against Warrior Run last evening. The team, as a whole, won 42-26.

"Montgomery Football Players Earn Further Accolades” Congratulations to Trace Furman, Coy Bryson, and Cam Wotz who were named to the 2024 Class 1A All-Eastern PA Football.com team.

Hello College Bound Senior Families! Happy New Year! I wanted to share with you a list of free PHEAA webinars for the upcoming months via the link below. If any of these topics interest you, please register at https://pheaa.org/virtual Please contact Denise Liscum at dliscum@montasd.org with any questions or concerns. https://5il.co/34c8w

"Football Players Named to NTL All-Star Team”

"Bryson Earns 100th Win” Congratulations to Coy Bryson for earning his 100th career victory over the holiday break. Bryson reached this milestone at the Junisra Duals where the Montgomery JR/SR High School Wrestling program also took first place as a team.

"Matness at the MACC Yields Girls’ Wrestling Success” The Montgomery High School Girls’ Wrestling program hosted a 20-team Matness at the MACC event this past weekend. Our Lady Raider Wrestling team placed second overall with 3 individual champs - Jenna Houseknecht, Emily Murphy, and Zoe Furman. Murphy was also named as the Outstanding Wrestler.

"FFA Students Earn Highest State Achievement” Congratulations to Madison Burleigh and Landyn Rine who received their Keystone degrees at the farm show in Harrisburg yesterday. This degree is the highest achievement in the state of Pennsylvania.

Montgomery NHS Chapter Receives National Service Award The Montgomery Area High School NHS Chapter has won the National Service Award of Excellence for its exemplary record of leadership, service and efforts to improve the school and community. Among its many service projects, as well as the society’s volunteer work for elementary and high school events, this chapter’s 2023 Clubs for a Cause project solidified this award. This project brought together the school and local community to collect blanket kits and make and donate 115 blankets to Project Linus for Christmas in December of 2023. “Receiving an NHS Chapter Pillar Award reflects the extraordinary commitment of students who are making a real difference in their school and community,” said NASSP CEO Ronn Nozoe. “The Montgomery chapter showed what's possible when young people come together to lead, serve and inspire others.” Congratulations to our current and past NHS members responsible for this honor. Special congratulations to NHS coordinator for the district, Mrs. Jessica Carpenter.

Thank you to all students, teachers, stafff, and community members who contributed to the 34th annual Venison Roast. The tradition continues…..🎄🦌

December Elementary MVP's

"Broadcasting Students Take on Real World Opportunity” The HS Broadcasting program was given an amazing real-world application opportunity to showcase video and editing skills. Due to current renovations to the WVIA studio, the program was asked to film Camden Dalrymple’s upcoming Performing Artist of the Week dance segment in house. After seeing some of our past student work, WVIA offered our kids the opportunity to not only film for them but to also handle the edit of the segment that will be featured in the spring of 2025. Congratulations to drone videographer, Layne Gingery, and lead editor, Zoe Furman.

"Montgomery HS Art Program Wins PennDOT Award” Recently, Penn DOT announced Montgomery Area High School as the winning school in this year’s Lycoming County Paint the Plow initiative. This statewide outreach endeavors to promote driving safety throughout the winter months as well as encouraging area Visual Arts programs to express creativity through this important message. Congratulations to Art teacher, Mrs. Tina Sampsell, and to the following student painters: Carly Hall, Sahara Butcher, Katelyn Long, and Kendra Bryson. The original design was conceptualized by Jaiden Skiro. The winning plow will be on display at PennDOT’s Lycoming County Maintenance Office until next December. Mrs. Sampsell and her students would like to thank Dr. Stoudt and the Tech teachers fro their patience and support throughout the project.

The Board of Directors of the Montgomery Area School District will hold a special meeting on January 7, 2025 beginning at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of ratification of legal action and personnel matters.

The Montgomery Area School District is accepting applications for an immediate, full-time seventh grade science position. Please send resume, standard PA teaching application, teaching certification, references and all required clearances to Mrs. Daphne Bowers, Superintendent, Montgomery Area School District, 120 Penn Street, Montgomery, PA 17752. EOE

"FFA Participates in Wreaths Across America” Some of Montgomery’s FFA members participated in Wreaths Across America on Saturday, December 14th. Thanks to all who gave of their time.