Site last updated: Friday, August 28, 2026

Log In

Reset Password
Butler County's great daily newspaper
Complete Pages Current Edition Classifieds Public Notices Marketplace Contact Us Community Submission Forms Search
Person pronounced dead in Venango Township crash
A person was pronounced dead by the Butler County Coroner’s office at the scene of a crash along Eau Claire Road in Venango Township Thursday evening, Aug. 27. ...
Election certified in 12th House District
The Butler County Bureau of Elections has officially certified the results for the state 12th House District special election held Aug. 18. The special electio...
8 Butler County soccer and volleyball games and matchups to watch this season
The fall high school sports season doesn’t consist of just football, but you probably knew that. The soccer and volleyball in Butler County always has plenty of...
Hundreds come to new Aging Resource Center open house
BUTLER TWP — Hundreds of older residents came to Thursday’s debut of the Butler County Aging Resource Center. The parking lot of the center located at 215 N. Du...
Parent claims bus driver failed to report abuse, racial slurs in 2022
The father of a Slippery Rock Area School District student has filed a lawsuit claiming a bus driver failed to report older students repeatedly abusing and verb...
Person pronounced dead in Venango Township crash
Person pronounced dead...
Election certified in 12th House District
Election certified in ...
8 Butler County soccer and volleyball games and matchups to watch this season
8 Butler County soccer...
Hundreds come to new Aging Resource Center open house
Hundreds come to new A...
Parent claims bus driver failed to report abuse, racial slurs in 2022
Parent claims bus driv...
Top Headlines
City of Butler launches redesigned website
The City of Butler’s redesigned website has launched as of Thursday, Aug. 27. It features new sections and menus, including entire “for residents” and “for businesses” ta...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Main Street parking restricted for Italian Days
Parking and traffic restrictions will be in place Friday, Aug. 28, and Saturday, Aug. 29, while Butler Italian Days takes place. According to Butler police Chief Bob O’Ne...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Oral arguments heard in appeal of conditional use for Buffalo Township solar farms
Just over a year after a decision by Buffalo Township supervisors to grant conditional use permits for an energy company to operate two solar farms, attorneys argued over...
August 28, 2026 Local News
Butler sweeping streets Aug. 28
Parking will be restricted on eight streets in Butler between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, for street cleaning. The roads affected are Garfield, Holcomb and Thomas ...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Fairview Township man charged with possessing, distributing child pornography
A Fairview Township man is charged with child sexual abuse after a Homeland Security investigation in Arkansas linked his accounts to material exchanged over several year...
August 27, 2026 Local News
The Latest
Ordinance updates, new development will be up for vote at Sept. 3 Cranberry Township meeting
06:45 AM
Turf infields at Cranberry’s Community Park will extend playtime
06:00 AM
Official leading Trump’s Gaza ceasefire effort criticizes Israel for its attacks
06:00 AM
Who's rising and who's falling after the Steelers' final preseason game against the Bills?
10:34 PM
US Open draw: Here’s who Carlos Alcaraz, Coco Gauff and more will face in Round 1
10:11 PM
Beau Brungard accounts for 5 touchdowns in Youngstown State's season-opening win over Mercyhurst
10:08 PM
View all The Latest
News
One transported to hospital in motorcycle crash reported on Route 422
One person was transported to Butler Memorial Hospital Thursday evening, Aug. 27, following a motorcycle crash on Route 422 in Butler Township. According to Butler County...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Police: Franklin Township woman gave hospital doctor bloody lip
A Franklin Township woman is accused of giving a doctor a bloody and swollen lip Saturday, Aug. 22, at Butler Memorial Hospital. Nicole Lynn Morin, 34, was already being...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Butler County Opioid Overdose Coalition to host 5th Butler County Remembers ceremony
Butler County Opioid Overdose Coalition will host the 5th Butler County Remembers ceremony on International Overdose Awareness Day Monday, Aug. 31. Family and friends are...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Interstate 79 traffic to be restricted near Wexford this weekend
Motorists on Interstate 79 on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 29 and 30, could see delays in Marshall Township and Franklin Park because of road work. The Pennsylvania Departme...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Butler school district’s first day of school sees range of emotions
BUTLER TWP — Charles, an eighth-grader at Butler Intermediate High School, and his brother, sixth-grader Mason, nervously arrived for their first day at a new school. Alt...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Read More
Community
Mars High School Class of 1971 has 55-year reunion
Mars High School Class of 1971 held a 55-year high school reunion Saturday, Aug. 22, at Th...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
Wagner anniversary
William “Bill” and Carla Wagner, of Butler, will celebrate 50 years of marriage on Aug. 27...
August 27, 2026
Butler High School Class of 1964 having 80th birthday party
The Butler High School Class of 1964 is throwing an 80th birthday celebration Saturday, Se...
August 27, 2026
September nights are expanding
Butler summer stargazing can be so comfortable! However, for many folks with Monday-throu...
August 27, 2026
Minecraft through grief at this upcoming event
Attendees of an October virtual event will use Minecraft to learn coping strategies for gr...
August 27, 2026
Read More
Sports
SRU football wins opener in dramatic fashion
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock needed a miracle. It got one. Trailing 30-14 early in the fo...
 
New Slippery Rock football coach Steve Monteleone carries military experience into first year leading Rockets
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Becoming a high school football head coach for the first time at age 6...
August 27, 2026
Week 1 PIAA football predictions: Who starts 1-0 between Butler, Karns City-Moniteau, Mars-Seneca Valley, more?
Everyone starts 0-0, including the Butler Eagle sports staff. The PIAA football season is ...
August 27, 2026
Hole in one
John Lesney, on Stoughton Acres Golf Course’s 157-yard No. 3 hole, using a 3-wood. ...
August 27, 2026
WPIAL, District 9 and 10 football standings and schedules ahead of Week 1
WPIAL Quad County Conference Team Conf. Ovr. Canon-McMillan 0-0 0-0 Central...
August 27, 2026
Read More
Editorial
editorial cartoon
August 25, 2026 Cartoons
School bus safety must remain top priority
Breaking records can be a good thing — but not in the case of school bus crashes. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, 2025 re...
August 25, 2026 Our Opinion
Congress has an age floor and no ceiling
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's visible decline in her final years in office, Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s own recent hospitaliz...
August 25, 2026 Other Voices
Republicans are bankrupting us
The national debt has ballooned under Republican control. During the president’s first term, he added $7.8 trillion to the national debt. So far in th...
August 22, 2026 Letters to the Editor
BC3 keeps giving back to Butler
The story in the July 12 Butler Eagle showcasing the 41 county adults who gained their GED diplomas (“Residents earn diplomas through BC3 programs,” P...
August 22, 2026 Letters to the Editor
View all Editorial
Business
Meijer has closed on property for planned location in Jackson Township
Meijer is one step closer to bringing its shopping experience to Jackson Township. Representatives from the Michigan-based company confirmed it recent...
August 27, 2026 Business
Meta reaches $18 billion settlement with states in landmark trial over teen social media addiction
OAKLAND, Calif. — Meta agreed Wednesday to pay up to $18 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms as par...
August 26, 2026 Business
FDA approves landmark pancreatic cancer drug that’s shown to improve survival
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a groundbreaking new drug for advanced pancreatic cancer, offering U.S. patients a...
August 26, 2026 Business
Independence Health System and AHN honored for supporting organ donations
Independence Health System and Allegheny Health Network have received statewide recognition for efforts to support organ, eye and tissue donation. The...
August 25, 2026 Business
AHN to collaborate with cancer research group
The START Center for Cancer Research, a global network that gives patients access to early-phase clinical trials for new cancer treatments, is collabo...
August 25, 2026 Business
View all Business
Weekend Entertainment
Cranberry Township’s second annual rib cook-off will happen in September
The second annual 16066 BBQ Bash will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Cranberry Township Municipal Center’s Armstrong Great Lawn, 2525 Rochest...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Read More
Arts & Entertainment
Blake Lively, who sought $8 million, awarded $400,000 in legal fees in Baldoni case
Blake Lively was awarded a meager portion of the millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees that she demanded be paid by Justin Baldoni. Judge Lewis Liman on Wednesday ordere...
August 27, 2026 People
Moraine and McConnells Mill events for September
Some new events have been added to the schedule for Moraine and McConnells Mill state parks. Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m.: Join the Moraine State Park naturalist at the Pleasan...
August 26, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Jaye P. Morgan, a jack-of-all-trades entertainer who was a pop and TV star, dies at 94
NEW YORK — Jaye P. Morgan, one of the top female recording artists of the 1950s with five hits in 1955 alone, including “That’s All I Want From You,” and who later became...
August 26, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80
Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”...
August 26, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
Dolly Parton, music star, actor and beloved figure who spanned generations, dies at 80
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the...
August 25, 2026 National News
Read More
Special Sections
Slippery Rock increases its parking pass price, opens new lot for student overflow
Slippery Rock University senior and commuter student Samuel Kightlinger said that for his 10 a.m. class last year, he had to arrive to campus at least an hour early to fi...
August 27, 2026 Special Sections
Butler Farm Show Results: Sheep & Junior Sheep
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. SHEEP Border Leicester Yearling Ram Lamb, Willem Meiser, Butler Champion R...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Butler Farm Show Results: Goats & Junior Goats
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. GOATS Alpine Milking Doe – 2 & Under 3, Cheyenne Henry, Chicora Milking Do...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Butler Farm Show Results: Beef Cattle & Junior Beef
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. BEEF CATTLE Angus Spring Heifer Calf, Kenneth Cranmer, Butler Jr Heifer Ca...
August 27, 2026 Local News
Butler Farm Show Results: Dairy Cattle & Junior Projects
The following are first-place winners from the Butler Farm Show, which ended Saturday, Aug. 15. Ayrshire Spring Heifer Calf, Nathan Rassau, Enon Valley Fall Yearling Heif...
August 26, 2026 Local News
Read More
Seeking Refuge
Ukrainians who fled homeland face 1st anniversary of invasion
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
Ukrainian families assimilating in Butler County as war rages on in homeland
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
Another family will join Ukrainians who fled to Cranberry Twp.
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
Efforts started to help Ukrainian families in Cranberry Twp.
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
2 young families flee war-torn Ukraine, staying in Cranberry
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
View all Seeking Refuge
Digital Divide
Obstacles abound as Pa. plans for surge of federal broadband funding
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
Biden administration announces more funding for rural broadband infrastructure
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
What’s next as Pa. prepares to spend $1.2B on broadband
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
Broadband authority seeks feedback on plans
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
FCC maps still under criticism from the Butler County residents, government officials
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
View all Digital Divide
COMPLETE PAGES
Publication Date: 08-28-26

Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter

* indicates required
Butler Eagle
TODAY'S PHOTOS
View today's gallery
Butler County's great daily newspaper

514 West Wayne Street

Butler, PA 16001

(724) 282-8000
Contact Us
Subscriber Services
Print Subscriptions
Digital Subscription
Manage Digital Account
Contact Circulation
Submission Forms
Birth Announcements, Anniversaries, Weddings, Graduations & More
Examples of In Memoriams, Birthday Tributes & More
Site Map
News
Sports
Entertainment
Obituaries
Editorial
Community
Schools
Classifieds
Community Information
Experience Butler County
Chamber of Commerce
Local Happenings
Advertising Services
Sales Kit
© 2024 The Butler Eagle
Eagle Printing Company
Contact Us Privacy Policy