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Jim Insco, an attorney for a national law firm in Pittsburgh who lives in Mars, has announced his candidacy for Butler County Common Pleas Court judge.
Insco, an attorney...
March 08, 2025
Crime & Courts
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission will celebrate the state’s 344th birthday on Sunday, March 9, with free admission to several state museums and historic ...
March 08, 2025
Local News
Although larger amplifiers have been built since the 1960s, the four members of The Sequins, a Butler rock band, still seem to be haunted by a photo they took with what w...
March 08, 2025
Local News
Doctors recently performed a heart and kidney transplant without the use of blood products for the first time at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh.
The patient is...
March 07, 2025
Business
The state Department of Education is accepting applications for the Recognizing Inspiring School Employees award, a national honor from the U.S. Department of Education t...
March 07, 2025
Education
Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Township supervisors approved multiple vehicle and equipment purchases for the public works department during their Thursday, March 6, meeting.
All of the...
March 06, 2025
Local News
Mars Area School District will offer counseling for its students, following an elementary school bus crash Thursday morning along Three Degree Road that sent multiple ind...
March 06, 2025
Education
Seven elementary school students and the driver were injured when a Mars Area School District bus crashed head-on into a tree Thursday morning, March 6, along Three Degre...
March 06, 2025
Local News
A Mars man was given a prison sentence Wednesday in Common Pleas Court for attacking a co-worker with a box cutter.
Russell E. Smith Jr., 42, was sentenced to serve 30 to...
March 06, 2025
Crime & Courts
An Oakland Township man was handed a prison sentence Wednesday in Common Pleas Court for having identification, credit and debit cards that didn’t belong to him
Brandon A...
March 06, 2025
Crime & Courts
Sports
You miss every shot you don’t take. It’s one of sports’ great clichés, but it’s how Mars b...
PITTSBURGH — After an early bedtime the night before, Luke Lamb ate two bananas before hop...
February 28, 2025
Luke Lamb was a newcomer to the WPIAL Class 3A swimming championships. He was far from an ...
February 27, 2025
WPIAL boys basketball playoffs: Mars falls just short of 5A title game in OT loss to Peters Township
MOON TWP — Mars was a 19-mile drive from the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Ce...
February 25, 2025
O’HARA TWP — North Catholic entered expecting what Oakland Catholic would throw at them. T...
February 24, 2025
Community
EVANS CITY — For Russ and Phil Walker, Westminster Preschool runs through their blood. The...
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mo...
March 01, 2025
A dilapidated piece of Butler history with a connection to slavery and the 1865 assassinat...
February 25, 2025
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mo...
February 22, 2025
CRANBERRY TWP — The Rose E. Schneider Family YMCA was set aside on Sunday morning, Feb. 16...
February 16, 2025
Special Sections
Five long-term canine residents of the Butler County Humane Society shelter will try to win the hearts of the public — and win some funds for the Huma...
February 07, 2025
Community
Birth/death certificates
Certifications of birth and death records can be obtained for Butler County residents between 1893 and 1905 from the Registe...
January 29, 2025
Special Sections
∎ Butler Area Public Library
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; closed Sunday...
January 29, 2025
Special Sections
February
Winterfest, Moraine State Park, Feb. 8
Butler Carved in Ice, Diamond Park, Butler, Feb. 21-22
Cherry Pie Hike, Jennings Environmental Center,...
January 29, 2025
Special Sections
Butler Art Center
operated by the Associated Artists of Butler County
Mailing address: P.O. Box 245, Butler, PA 16003
Address: 344 S. Mai...
January 29, 2025
Special Sections
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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