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Outdoor activity discouraged during air quality alert
All residents, especially those with lung disease, are advised to stay inside and avoid outdoor activities after an unhealthy air quality alert was issued Frida...
Clearview Mall ‘working hard’ to welcome new stores, restaurants
The Clearview Mall said it is working hard to bring new businesses to the location following outcry from shoppers. “Butler, we heard you loud and clear! You wan...
Butler going after assets of winery, owner for not repaying entire loan
The City of Butler will seek the assets of the former Porchvue Winery company and its owner as a result of a Thursday ruling in Butler County Common Pleas Court...
Horse Trading Days marches on, not fazed by weather
ZELIENOPLE — Despite a hazardous air quality alert, a high temperature in the 90s and a parade cancellation, vendors and buyers from near and far peppered Zelie...
How Butler’s Kyle Casteel and Nolan Stefaniak morphed into elite pitchers: ‘They did everything together’
Kyle Casteel’s name hadn’t even stopped echoing when he’d pulled up to a familiar spot Monday. “Kyle gets drafted yesterday, he’s back in there this morning,” B...
Outdoor activity discouraged during air quality alert
Outdoor activity disco...
Clearview Mall ‘working hard’ to welcome new stores, restaurants
Clearview Mall ‘workin...
Butler going after assets of winery, owner for not repaying entire loan
Butler going after ass...
Horse Trading Days marches on, not fazed by weather
Horse Trading Days mar...
How Butler’s Kyle Casteel and Nolan Stefaniak morphed into elite pitchers: ‘They...
How Butler’s Kyle Cast...
Top Headlines
The Clearview Mall said it is working hard to bring new businesses to the location following outcry from shoppers. “Butler, we heard you loud and clear! You want your mal...
July 17, 2026 Local News
FORWARD TWP — Changes could be coming soon to the township’s subdivision and land development ordinance. At a special joint meeting of the board of supervisors and planni...
July 17, 2026 Local News
Hartman Estates, Londonderry Ridge up for review
July 17, 2026 Local News
Todd Williams, co-owner of Kat’s Coffeehouse in Pine Township, Allegheny County, had a problem. After the morning rush, hardly anyone showed up to buy coffee ... or much ...
July 17, 2026 Local News
A Butler man is charged with theft after stealing more than $10,000 from his East Butler employer, according to state police. Brady Steven Shuler, 22, was charged Wednesd...
July 16, 2026 Local News
News
The World’s Largest Swim Lesson, which was called off June 25 due to weather concerns, has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 6, according to Dave Hutner, Cranberry Townshi...
July 17, 2026 Local News
Maggie Schott was named 2025 Volunteer of the Year by Zelienople Borough, the municipality announced in a news release Wednesday, July 15. Schott, who is the board presid...
July 17, 2026 Local News
A Clarion County man was sentenced Thursday to serve 3½ to 7 years in prison following his conviction on drug delivery charges, even though the physical evidence in the c...
July 17, 2026 Crime & Courts
Chicora is set to receive a $1.4 million low-interest loan from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority toward replacing waterlines and associated infrastruc...
July 16, 2026 Local News
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s District 10 office announced a change in dates for bridge repairs on Route 8 in Clay Township. Repairs were originally sch...
July 16, 2026 Local News
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Community
Samantha Capriotti, 17, of Butler Township, recently became a top 10 finalist in the Ms. D...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges an...
July 16, 2026
Ian and Theresa Smith, of Butler, will celebrate 65 years of marriage on July 17 with a pr...
July 16, 2026
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Slippery Rock, Mount Ch...
July 16, 2026
Last week in Starwatch, I described how stars are born in gigantic families in part one of...
July 16, 2026
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Sports
The Little League tournament season is under way. Butler Township has two teams in the Pen...
 
Happy second birthday to “Eye on Sports!” Not really, but it’s close. The Butler Eagle’s t...
July 16, 2026
It’s not how you start, but how you finish. Mike Battista and his son, Jacob, both of Cran...
July 16, 2026
Lexie Hames won’t move to Oxford, Miss., for about another month. That doesn’t mean th...
July 16, 2026
Zelienople loves to party, parade and run Their Fourth of July salute included a week of A...
July 16, 2026
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Editorial
July 17, 2026 Cartoons
Butler Area School District is the latest in the area to vote to ban cellphone usage. The state may soon step in to remove the handheld distractions i...
July 17, 2026 Our Opinion
Something is breaking in farm country and the warning signs are growing harder to ignore. The clearest indicator arrived this spring, when farm bankru...
July 17, 2026 Other Voices
July 15, 2026 Cartoons
I'm appalled by Sheriff Mike Slupe’s comment in the Eagle on July 3 regarding the detainment of Ignacio Carrizalez (“Butler resident released from ICE...
July 15, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Business
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday. Costume Class Dairy Cattle, Nathan Rassau, Enon Valley Beef Cat...
July 17, 2026 Agriculture
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday. BEEF CATTLE Angus Junior Bull Calf, Beacom Farms, Tarentum Seni...
July 17, 2026 Agriculture
HONG KONG — Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the U...
July 17, 2026 Business
The following are first place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday, July 11. Horse Show Pole Bending – Pony, Elizabeth King, Butler ...
July 17, 2026 Agriculture
The following are first-place winners from the Big Butler Fair, which ended Saturday. Chickens Delaware – Cock, Adam Hile, Indiana Delaware – Hen, Ada...
July 17, 2026 Agriculture
Weekend Entertainment
Below is the schedule for the upcoming Horse Trading Days in Zelienople: Thursday, July 16 Around Town Craft and food vendors, 2 to 8 p.m. at Four Corners Park ...
July 15, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
LONDON — Brenda Fricker, who won an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film “My Left Foot,’’ has died. She was 81. The Irish character actor di...
July 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Getting home, and turning back the clock, has long been at the root of Christopher Nolan’s films. The astronauts of “Interstellar” painstakingly lose 23 years in space tr...
July 17, 2026 Reviews
Christopher Nolan's “The Odyssey” was an epic undertaking for all involved. The cast and crew embarked on a globe-trotting mission to bring the story of Odysseus' hom...
July 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
BUTLER TWP — One green ogre’s far-away swamp is getting a fairy tale reimagining next week at Butler County Community College’s Succop Theater. Children and adults alike ...
July 15, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — A wide array of performers, from actor Tom Cruise to streamer IShowSpeed, will help close out the World Cup, FIFA announced Tuesday. Soccer's governing body re...
July 15, 2026 People
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Special Sections
To view the Butler Eagle’s PDF version, click here. ...
July 07, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Below are the even...
July 04, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Below are a number...
July 03, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Butler Area Pu...
July 03, 2026 Special Sections
This list is one in a series showing a snapshot of what life looks like in Butler County ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026. Butler Transit Aut...
July 03, 2026 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
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,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
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...
November 23, 2022 Local News
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...
July 16, 2022 Local News
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...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
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 Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
August 22, 2023 National News
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...
July 18, 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

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