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Toys for Tots helps families fill stockings during holiday season
CENTER TWP — With costs on the rise and Christmas around the corner, the Toys for Tots Butler chapter is stepping in to help families make sure their children h...
Buffalo Township residents wave goodbye to Roenigk after 46-year run
BUFFALO TWP — A large crowd of township residents waved goodbye to supervisor Albert “Ouch” Roenigk, who presided over his final supervisors meeting on Wednesda...
Founder’s fund helps area nonprofit
It’s only the first year Breakthrough Butler has been a member of the Butler Collaborative for Families, but the leaders of the collaborative found the nonprofi...
State agency letters left unsent by vendor
Around 2.7 million pieces of state agency mail from the last month never got delivered after a state-contracted vendor failed to send them. Between Nov. 3 and D...
Freeport girls soccer star Camryn Woods player of the year: See 2025 Butler County all-stars
This past girls soccer season isn’t one Freeport will soon forget. “I knew we had a good team coming in this year, and the girls came in with the right attitude...
Toys for Tots helps families fill stockings during holiday season
Toys for Tots helps fa...
Buffalo Township residents wave goodbye to Roenigk after 46-year run
Buffalo Township resid...
Founder’s fund helps area nonprofit
Founder’s fund helps a...
State agency letters left unsent by vendor
State agency letters l...
Freeport girls soccer star Camryn Woods player of the year: See 2025 Butler Coun...
Freeport girls soccer ...
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Cranberry Township honors outgoing police chief Kevin Meyer after nearly 30 years of service
CRANBERRY TWP — Kevin Meyer never could have envisioned how his career would unfold with the Cranberry Township Police Department after being hired as a patrolman in 1996...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Buffalo Township tax collector resigns one month after winning election
New tax collector to be appointed by early January
December 12, 2025 Government
PA American Water provides $5,000 grant to Inspired Hearts and Hands to fight food insecurity
As the holidays inch closer, Pennsylvania American Water’s charitable arm has stepped up to help combat food insecurity. The American Water Charitable Foundation on Thurs...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Cranberry supervisors approve 2.5 mill tax increase as part of 2026 budget
CRANBERRY TWP — Township supervisors on Thursday, Dec. 11 approved a 2026 budget of nearly $110 million, with a 2.5-mill real estate tax increase that will launch a new R...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Seneca Valley senior looking to improve boat launch for senior project
FORWARD TWP — For his senior project, Seneca Valley Senior High School student Jeb Keller is proposing improvements to a boat launch along Connoquenessing Creek. The laun...
December 12, 2025 Local News
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Clinton Township expects balanced budget for 2026, no tax increase
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Cranberry readies for winter road care
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Highmark announces affiliation with KC based insurer
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3 Ohio men accused of assaulting woman released on bond
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City offers free holiday parking
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Police: Man assaulted in Cranberry Township apartment
A Cranberry Township man reportedly assaulted a man in a Norberry Court apartment, police said. Everton Modesto da Silva, 37, was charged with felony burglary and misdem...
December 12, 2025 Local News
Police: Ky. man stalking television journalist sent explicit photos
A Kentucky man is accused of stalking and sending explicit images to a television journalist, Adams Township police said. Jeremiah Daniel Gregory, 32, of Versailles, Ky....
December 12, 2025 Local News
Chicora man flown to hospital after Monday crash in Oakland Township
A 75-year-old Chicora man was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital after his vehicle left the road Monday, Dec. 8, in Oakland Township, state police said. Police said Fredrick...
December 11, 2025 Local News
Portion of Evans City Road reopened after Thursday morning crash in Jackson Township
Evans City Road reopened around 8 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, after a two-vehicle crash with one injury closed a portion of the road in Jackson Township for about an hour, ac...
December 11, 2025 Local News
Communities primed for harsh winter conditions
Winter arrived in Western Pennsylvania last week, dropping as many as 4 inches of heavy snow in Butler County that sent road crews into action. “It’s not often that we ge...
December 11, 2025 Local News
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Community
The best holiday gifts don’t always come in boxes
This holiday season, some shoppers are looking beyond traditional wrapped gifts — the kind...
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Beaver County resident wants to fix destroyed monument in Cranberry Township
Pinewood Memorial Gardens in Cranberry Township is one of 19 cemeteries across Butler Coun...
December 10, 2025
Young members of the Butler Squires cap year with sizable donation
Joyce Rauschenberger has advised many young members of the William C. Graham Order of Squi...
December 10, 2025
Community remembers beloved drug rehab counselor, Les Martin
It’s said that God puts people on Earth for a reason, and Leslie “Les” Martin would say th...
December 10, 2025
Think outside the poinsettia for holiday plants
Flowering holiday plants and bulbs are decorating the shelves at local nurseries, floral s...
December 10, 2025
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Sports
Freeport girls basketball smothers Derry: Roundup
Senior Nia DiSanti drained 17 points as Freeport girls basketball opened WPIAL Section 1-4...
 
For Mars boys wrestling, a ‘huge milestone’ win over Butler years in the making
BUTLER TWP — Mars boys wrestling’s 40-31 win over Butler was a huge boost for a program th...
December 10, 2025
Seneca Valley boys soccer’s Owen Eastgate player of the year: See 2025 Butler County all-stars
Seneca Valley boys soccer featured a number of players switching positions this season...
December 10, 2025
Butler girls basketball suffers first loss of season to Shaler in home opener
BUTLER TWP — Star power guarantees nothing in sports, but it comes in handy for a team whe...
December 09, 2025
Penguins, with Malkin on IR, lose to Ducks in shootout after giving up tying goal with 1 second left in regulation
PITTSBURGH — Beckett Sennecke scored a short-handed goal with 1 second remaining to force ...
December 09, 2025
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Editorial
5-year-old can teach adults a lot about this season
In the Monday, Dec. 8, edition of the Butler Eagle, we learned about a holiday blanket drive for cancer patients. While there are a lot of collection ...
December 12, 2025 Our Opinion
Editorial Cartoon
December 12, 2025 Cartoons
5 reasons the boat strike debate matters for the U.S.
It has been a turbulent couple of weeks in national security, highlighted by continuing strikes on high-speed boats in the Caribbean that are, accordi...
December 12, 2025 Other Voices
An old-fashioned cure for fading trust in government
Across much of the industrial world, trust in government is low and declining. Why is this happening and why, exactly, does it matter? An unusually th...
December 11, 2025 Other Voices
Every child should have a toy to open on Christmas, and Toys for Tots makes that magic happen
On a frigid Black Friday morning, Toys for Tots coordinator Matt Thurner stood in the parking lot near Five Below’s Butler Township location to collec...
December 11, 2025 Our Opinion
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Business
Disney invests $1B in OpenAI in deal to bring characters like Mickey Mouse to Sora AI video tool
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI company’s Sora video ...
December 11, 2025 Business
First of 30 oil lease sales planned for Gulf of Mexico draws $279 million in bids from companies
WASHINGTON — Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region...
December 10, 2025 Business
Attorney general settles with Dollar General for overcharging customers
An investigation led by the Pennsylvania attorney general found widespread instances where Dollar General overcharged customers at the register. In a ...
December 10, 2025 Local News
Transit Authority upgrades terminal cameras, radios
PENN TWP — Butler Transit Authority continued to upgrade its technology at its final meeting of the year. The authority’s board voted Tuesday, Dec. 9,...
December 10, 2025 Local News
Cranberry’s Camp Bow Wow to offer U-Haul rentals
Camp Bow Wow in Cranberry Township has joined the U-Haul neighborhood dealer network and will offer truck rentals and moving supplies at its location ...
December 10, 2025 Local News
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Weekend Entertainment
Miller Minutes: ‘They’re sure to make you merry and bright’
We have a sleigh filled with Christmas movies at my house. It’s a sleigh fit for American Girl dolls, to give you an idea of scale. Each year we fill the sleigh with movi...
December 11, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
Director convicted of scamming $11M from Netflix and going on lavish spending spree
NEW YORK — A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the...
December 11, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Shaquille O’Neal announces his big Bay Area plans for Super Bowl week
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Shaq is coming back. And the first-tier Basketball Hall of Famer is going to help sports fans and other interested parties get ready for the Super Bowl...
December 11, 2025 People
Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55
LONDON — Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 a...
December 10, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60
NEW YORK — Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60. Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty...
December 09, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
Takeover bid of parent company means limbo for CNN and some fellow cable networks
Paramount Skydance’s hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery places CNN and its sister cable networks squarely back into what is likely to be an extended period of...
December 09, 2025 Business
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Special Sections
December 2025
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December 10, 2025 Special Sections
Holiday services across Butler county
The following is a list of church services to be held in Butler County and the surrounding area on or around the Christmas holiday. Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Catholi...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
Holiday trivia answers
1. 1971 2. Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar 3. Tiny Tim in “A Christmas Carol” 4. John Boy and Grandpa Walton 5. Jimmy Buffett 6. A Hula-Hoop 7. Paul Giamatti 8. New York C...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
An interview with Santa’s helper: What it means to put on the red suit
With the holidays just around the corner, Santa Claus and his army of helpers have come to town. One such helper is Al Mazuch, who has acted as Santa’s eyes and ears at M...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
Unwrap the magic: Holiday events offered in Butler County
A holiday season in Butler County is always ripe with opportunities to explore, gather and give back. Below are just a few events that can put you in the spirit this mont...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
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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
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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
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