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The First Foodie Friday of the year kicked off May 17 in downtown Butler beneath scattered showers and an overcast sky, with the first Moon Market of the season bringing ...
May 18, 2024 Local News
The Butler City Farmers’ Market opens for the season May 25, and Bob Dandoy, who supervises its operation for the summer, said vendor spaces are filling up already. Dando...
May 18, 2024 Local News
The youngest committee member helping to plan a park in Harrisville near Slippery Rock University’s physician assistant studies building on West Prairie Street is 11 year...
May 18, 2024 Local News
Ray Sielski doesn’t remember much about Wednesday morning, May 15, when he was hit by a jumping deer as he rode his bike along Hammond Road in Adams Township. What he do...
May 18, 2024 Local News
Penn Township announced Friday, May 17, that work will soon commence on the upgrade to the traffic signals at the intersection of Route 8 and Airport Road. Starting at 7 ...
May 18, 2024 Government
A Cranberry Township man was accused of driving his truck through the football field at Graham Park, according to documents filed last week. Steven D. Berwick, 20, was c...
May 18, 2024 Crime & Courts
Freedom Road in Cranberry Township will close from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily between Haine School and Lovi roads through June 17, according to the state Department of Trans...
May 18, 2024 Business
Butler Health System’s $150 million debt was refinanced in 2015, years before COVID-19 brought long-lasting problems to the industry — inflation, stagnant insurance reimb...
May 17, 2024 Finance
On Friday, May 17, U.S. District Judge Robert Colville denied synagogue gunman Robert Bowers’ request for a new trial. Bowers, who was convicted of killing 11 worshippers...
May 17, 2024 Local News
When Bryan Calhoun goes on a Target run, he avoids the store in Wynnewood, Pa., just a few miles away from his home in Broomall, a western suburb of Philadelphia. He opts...
May 17, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Police and first responders have stopped traffic on Bear Creek Road at the intersection of Younkins Drive because of a single-car rollover. According to Butler County dis...
May 17, 2024 Local News
DHS visits Lifesteps in Armstrong County, discusses governor’s 2024-2025 budget
DHS visits Lifesteps in Armstrong County, discusses governor’s 2024-2025 budget
May 17, 2024 Government
A former Harrisville Borough Council member will not be taking up a seat following a decision made at Monday’s meeting, council president Kathy Bray said. A previous 4-2...
May 17, 2024 Government
Charli Severo, a Slippery Rock University junior studying political science and philosophy, has been selected as a member of the council of trustees. Severo fills the sea...
May 17, 2024 Local News
The following defendants were sentenced Thursday, May 16 in Common Pleas Court by Judge Timothy McCune. Nadine Ndayishimiye, 33, of Pittsburgh, was sentenced to concurren...
May 17, 2024 Crime & Courts
As spring and summer activities draw more people outdoors, ticks have more opportunities to create problems. “Tick season” in Pennsylvania generally lasts from April to O...
May 17, 2024 Health
Butler’s summer parks program is expected to return this year, with a new organization heading up programming for the revamped Free Summer Meals Program. Butler Mayor Bob...
May 17, 2024 Local News
Cranberry Township is moving forward with two infrastructure improvement projects to upgrade the sanitary sewer and water line systems. The township soon will be looking...
May 17, 2024 Local News
A Pittsburgh man was sentenced Thursday in Butler County Common Pleas Court to serve 3 to 6 years in state prison for threatening his estranged wife and holding her gun ...
May 17, 2024 Crime & Courts
A Harmony man was charged with driving under the influence following a Butler Township police investigation into a motorcycle crash on Whitestown Road earlier this month....
May 17, 2024 Local News
ADAMS TWP — There are few things in this galaxy that are truly meant to be together, such as peanut butter and jelly, Romeo and Juliet, and road construction and Route 22...
May 16, 2024 Local News
Main Street in Saxonburg hosted its first of five Mingle on Main events this year on Thursday evening, May 16. Dozens of food and craft vendors packed Saxonburg’s Main St...
May 16, 2024 Local News
Those watching the “osprey cam” livestream from Moraine State Park on Tuesday night, May 14, were in for a surprise, as they witnessed a female osprey get body-slammed by...
May 16, 2024 Local News
A resident of Connoquenessing Township has been seeing three bear cubs and their mother visit his home about every eight days this spring, which raid the bird feeders out...
May 16, 2024 Local News
Mason Martin, the former Karns City Area Jr./Sr. High School quarterback who collapsed at a game last September, has been making positive strides in his recovery from his...
May 16, 2024 Local News
FORWARD TWP — The board of supervisors approved a motion Tuesday, May 14, to send a proposal letter to Seneca Valley School District asking for a “student adviser” from t...
May 16, 2024 Government
The following items have been collected from various police departments and district courts: Adams Twp April 22 — Marshall W. Grubb, 28, of Pittsburgh, was charged with ...
May 16, 2024 Crime & Courts
BUTLER TWP — David Pingree usually gets around in a wheelchair, but he was able to complete the 2-kilometer walk around VA Butler Healthcare on Wednesday, May 15, thanks ...
May 16, 2024 Local News
One of the missions of the Penn State Master Gardeners is to educate people on good plant-growing practices, and one of the best places for them to do that is the annual ...
May 16, 2024 Local News
Nationally known recording artists Ron Thomason and the Dry Branch Fire Squad will perform their blend of humor and bluegrass music inside the Historic Harmony Barn at 30...
May 16, 2024 Local News
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