CRANBERRY TWP — Every year, the township’s Volunteer Fire Company holds a remembrance ceremony for the lives lost during the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Vo...
JACKSON TWP — Seneca Valley School District’s main campus was arrayed with a Patriot Day display on a chilly Thursday morning, Sept. 10, as the district’s JROTC...
With 25 years passing since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, people around the world have all experienced a quarter century of life since.
But very few have...
Teachers in Butler County remember the weather on Sept. 11, 2001, being sunny with a blue sky, like many across the country remember before the unexpected occur...
Everyone understood what the deformed 900-lb steel beam carried on the back of Assistant Chief Bruce Hezlep’s truck represented as he carried it across the Geor...
25 years later, Cranberry Twp. carries on its 9/11 memorial tradition
25 years later, Cranbe...
JROTC cadets at Seneca Valley plant flags on campus to commemorate Patriot Day
JROTC cadets at Seneca...
Man born on 9/11 reflects on 25 years of life, sharing birthday with tragedy
Man born on 9/11 refle...
Butler County teachers reflect on how 9/11 education has changed in quarter cent...
Butler County teachers...
How Cranberry Township Volunteer Fire Company got a piece of the World Trade Cen...
At first, the Butler Eagle’s front page on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, seemed like it was going to look very different than how it ended up.
Among the stories that seemed de...
When a former state trooper was dispatched to the 2001 crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Somerset County, there wasn’t much debris left to clean, he said.
“When you have...
A man called police just before 4 a.m. Thursday to say he was shot multiple times on Oneida Valley Road in Allegheny Township.
State police are investigating the shooting...
BUTLER TWP — VA Butler Healthcare held its annual veterans suicide prevention resource fair and walk Thursday, Sept. 10, to help stop area veterans from being added to th...
Two people were reportedly flown to hospitals with injuries they sustained Thursday just before 8:30 p.m. in a two-vehicle crash on Route 422 west at New Castle Road in B...
SAXONBURG — The sister cities of Saxonburg and Muhlhausen, Germany, are more than 4,000 miles apart. But Thursday, Sept. 10, two opposite sides of the world united inside...
MARS — The borough could be eligible for potential grant opportunities from the federal government through Butler County, as rules around applying for the funds change du...
American Legion Post 117 is having a memorial ceremony for Sept. 11, 2001, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11.
The post, according to Dean Noechel, will also cease all activit...
The national conversation about how much public surveillance is too much has come to the forefront in Butler County as municipalities weigh the pros a...
I’ve long been intrigued by the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower and believe they each offer important and illuminating ...
Minutes count, especially when someone is suffering from a life-threatening injury that may cause them to lose blood quickly.
According to the Stop t...
CRANBERRY TWP — According to Maria Vianeth Cervantes, Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant was named after her son, Emiliano, just 10 days old when their fir...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — For those recognized at this year’s Butler County Chamber of Commerce Celebrate Business Dinner, the evening is less about a troph...
Butler Memorial Hospital has again received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain — MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award ...
Armstrong Comfort Solutions, the subsidiary home services provider of Armstrong Group, is launching a new program created to help a deserving Butler C...
A new organization in the Karns City area is planning a family event for Sunday, Sept. 13.
Karns City Communities that Care is organizing KC Strong Community Day, to take...
When remembering “Practical Magic,” Griffin Dunne’s 1998 silly-spooky witchy sister movie, the image immediately conjured has to be “midnight margaritas.” The scene of Ni...
“The Uprising” starts as a true story of medieval England in the grip of economic revolution. That's good stuff. Then it gets inexplicably hijacked by an origin story...
NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox’s battle with Parkinson’s disease has “gotten harder,” but he remains optimistic that a cure is coming.
The 65-year-old television star was 29 y...
The creators of the long-running and enthusiastically insolent TV show “South Park” aren’t known to be huge fans of President Donald Trump. However, they’ve decided to ad...
DETROIT — Motown icon Stevie Wonder has announced fall tour dates, including a pair of concerts at Detroit's Fox Theatre.
The tour marks the 50th anniversary of his 18th ...
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 mark a moment in American history that typically draws the question, “Where were you?”
The Butler Eagle asked that very question on social me...
As temperatures begin to slowly drop, Eli Nickerson, HVAC service and installation manager with Armstrong Comfort Solutions, likes to take a cooler, late summer day to wa...
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15.
ALPACAS
Showmanship
Youth Through 18, Roselyn Knight, Evans City
Age 19 & ...
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15.
Ducks
Muscovy / Bk / Old Duck, Cristi Daugherty, Butler
Buff / Old Drake, ...
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK.
Tkachenko,...
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
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...
