Site last updated: Friday, July 11, 2025

Log In

Reset Password
MENU
Butler County's great daily newspaper
Editorial
A nearly 50-year-old organization announced this week that it’s taking on a new name. Cranberry Township Community Chest, which was first founded in 1976, is now going to...
July 11, 2025 Our Opinion
“Why am I learning AI if it’s going to eventually take my job?” one of my students asked me at the end of the school year. “I don’t know,” I said. “I wonder the same thin...
July 11, 2025 Other Voices
Sophia Zang, 17, of Connoquenessing Township, wrote the following essay as a school assignment during the 2024-25 school year. On July 3, we first were informed abo...
July 10, 2025 Other Voices
Placed between a rock and a hard place, its ironic the decision regarding Connoquenessing Township’s Act 537 Sewage Plan would come from two supervisors who won’t be retu...
July 10, 2025 Our Opinion
The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last century, the divide in economic thinking ...
July 09, 2025 Other Voices
When two nonprofits were affected by flooding in early June, several Butler County organizations stepped up to help. Jennifer Bindernagel, executive director of the Blind...
July 09, 2025 Our Opinion
The wisest among us realize that what we normally think of as opposites are also associates. There’s life and death, joy and pain, fulfillment and absence. And, as Charli...
July 08, 2025 Other Voices
As writers, finding true inspiration can be hard. That’s why we applaud the Writers on the Prairie program. About to be held at the Jennings Environmental Education Cente...
July 08, 2025 Our Opinion
Automatic fire alarms are cause for multiple alerts every day to Butler County Emergency Services, and they are usually single alarms that don’t warrant a full staff fire...
July 07, 2025 Our Opinion
For several hold-your-breath weeks, as spring sizzled into summer, the nuclear dealmakers of President Donald Trump’s USA and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s ...
July 07, 2025 Other Voices
Read More
TODAY'S PHOTOS