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Zelienople Rotary pays tribute to late members in recognition of World Peace Day
ZELIENOPLE — More than a dozen doves flew over Zelienople Community Park in a touching tribute to peace on Friday afternoon, Sept. 20. The dove release by Ken H...
DA to schools: Police advised to charge anyone who threatens schools
Days after school threats posted on social media resulted in the lockdown and cancellation of classes at school districts in Butler County, District Attorney Ri...
Moving Holocaust exhibit at Seneca Valley tells story of children rescued from Nazis
JACKSON TWP — The 30 panels in the “For the Child: Stories of the Kindertransport” exhibit at Seneca Valley Intermediate High School demonstrate the determinati...
Gas prices drop again in Western Pa. as calendar flips to fall
Much like the vast majority of the United States, Butler County residents have been dealing with higher prices at the gas pump over the last several years. But ...
Dwindling blood supply could lead doctors to make tough calls
Allegheny General Hospital has never had to delay an urgent procedure because of a lack of blood supply, but the supply had once gotten to a point where the hos...
Zelienople Rotary pays tribute to late members in recognition of World Peace Day
Zelienople Rotary pays...
DA to schools: Police advised to charge anyone who threatens schools
DA to schools: Police ...
Moving Holocaust exhibit at Seneca Valley tells story of children rescued from N...
Moving Holocaust exhib...
Gas prices drop again in Western Pa. as calendar flips to fall
Gas prices drop again ...
Dwindling blood supply could lead doctors to make tough calls
Dwindling blood supply...
The Latest
PennDOT is holding a meeting to outline proposed changes to the intersection of Route 422 and Glade Run Road in East Franklin Township, Armstrong County, on Thursday, Sep...
September 21, 2024 Local News
Butler City Police charged two men on Friday, Sept. 20, for allegedly assaulting two individuals and attempting to rob one. According to a police affidavit, Brandon M. Ca...
September 21, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Kittanning man has been charged for using a Forward Township landscaping company’s credit card to make $807 in unauthorized purchases. State police filed seven felony ...
September 21, 2024 Crime & Courts
Mars Area High School will host its annual College & Career Fair from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26. The event is open to the public, including parents and students f...
September 21, 2024 Education
Years before Starbucks debuted the pumpkin spice latte, a small, family-owned coffee company in Pennsylvania had already rolled out a predecessor. “We were the company th...
September 21, 2024 Local News
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An Armstrong County man faces up to 50 years in prison after being convicted of providing a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed another man in 2020, state At...
September 21, 2024 Crime & Courts
Two Butler County-based historical societies received more than $13,000 from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, according to a Friday announcement from the ...
September 21, 2024 Local News
The parents of 11-year-old Aiden Bartley, who died after battling a form of pancreatic cancer rarely found in children, have donated his tumor to research in hopes that t...
September 20, 2024 Local News
A Petrolia man has been jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail after being charged with strangling and assault his former girlfriend in her home Thursday morning, Sept. 19. Stat...
September 20, 2024 Crime & Courts
MIDDLESEX TWP — At their meeting on Thursday night, Sept. 19, the township’s three-member zoning hearing board denied a request by the developers of the Sienna Village, l...
September 20, 2024 Business
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Sports
The 2024 PIAA football season is nearing the halfway point. Friday night marked Week 5 of ...
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ADAMS TWP — Despite being down starting quarterback Luke Goodworth, Mars football kept pac...
September 21, 2024
Mars claimed its first-ever state championship in girls soccer in 2011, but the feat w...
September 20, 2024
It was a good week for the Butler Eagle sports team as the 2024 high school football seaso...
September 19, 2024
CRANBERRY TWP — North Catholic’s girls volleyball team is accustomed to deep runs in the W...
September 19, 2024
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Community
MARS — The Mars Area Public Library has a trick that can help reluctant and slower readers...
 
Big trucks and unique vehicles will be available for public perusal from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept....
September 21, 2024
The Women’s Club of Mars has announced that its annual indoor flea market, known as the Gr...
September 21, 2024
A class on stress and anxiety relief will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, at Mars Area...
September 21, 2024
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mo...
September 21, 2024
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Special Sections
BUTLER TWP — The Tesla BioHealing Wellness Hotel & Resort on Route 8 is working to continue the tradition held by the former tenants, Days Inn, of off...
September 04, 2024 Special Sections
The day of your wedding is, to many, one of the most important days of your life. Couples can spend years planning the event. The dress needs to be o...
September 04, 2024 Special Sections
NEW YORK — Attire, travel, food, liquor, flowers: There’s no end to expenses when it comes to traditional weddings. Through time, though certainly no...
September 04, 2024 Special Sections
There are really four “Rs” to an elementary school year: reading, ’riting, ’rithmatic — and readying a child for the new semester. Sarah Milford, a se...
August 07, 2024 Special Sections
It’s only August, but summer is already drawing to a close for county schoolchildren. They’ll be reporting back to class in a little over two weeks. B...
August 07, 2024 Education
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business
The state of broadband across a 10-county region in southwestern Pennsylvania, including Butler County, will be the topic of an event Thursday in Cran...
February 11, 2023 Local News
Part-time wedding photographer Margie Mackrell needs hours to upload wedding photos at her Muddy Creek Township home, an assignment that, by contrast,...
February 09, 2023 Local News

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