On Thursday night, the Penns Manor School Board voted to keep their current board president in place and to not go against the state mask mandate.
The vote to ask board president John Hardesty to relinquish his position came after a petition was submitted to the board concerning his behavior during the meeting on September 9th when he threw his gavel against the table and used a curse word during a heated discussion about the mask mandates in the district. The vote was 6-2 against the motion to relinquish. A second petition asking the board to not comply with the face covering mandate also failed to pass by a 7-2 vote.
