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A cat is terrorizing this family. Can a cat whisperer help?

In this undated photo Treats, an American short hair cat, climbs up the window screen at his home in the Boston area. A cat whisperer helped Treats curb some of his bad behaviors.

Cats are often misunderstood by their owners.

6/19/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Annual social wraps up BLT season

The Butler Little Theatre lowered the curtain on its 77th season earlier this month with its annual business meeting and social.

6/18/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Finding Summer Fun

Taste may be craft beers, or firing a new gun

Ty Eggemeyer is co-owner and operator of Keystone Shooting Center in Marshall Township, Allegheny County, a new high-end gun range and retail center.

Whether it's a weekend escape for a bachelor party or just an afternoon with the guys, Butler County residents don't have to go far to make the most of their summer.

6/18/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Soldier killed in Korea finally returning for burial in Arlington

The remains of Army Maj. Stephen T. Uurtamo, recently accounted-for from the Korean War, are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors Tuesday in Arlington National Cemetery.

CHICAGO — Not long after her father went missing during the Korean War, Carol Elkin spotted then-Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in downtown Chicago and did what any kid might do when coming face to face with the nation’s most famous soldier: She asked him to bring her dad home.

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Butler Bookstop

The Butler School District BookStop will make its first run through the county on Monday.

6/16/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Catholics celebrate Father's Day, too

Church has designated St. Joseph as the patron saint of the holiday

Father's Day is seen as a secular holiday, a time to get good ol' Dad a tie and a card.

6/16/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Freeport student wins theatre award

MIDLAND, Beaver County — For her performance in Freeport High School’s “The Addams Family” in the spring, Halle Surgil won the Henry Mancini Musical Theatre Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Wednesday Addams.

6/16/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Vacation Bible Schools

The following churches have announced dates for vacation Bible schools:

6/16/2018 Community Features 0 comments

6 college-money lessons you didn’t learn in high school

More than two-thirds of college students at all levels said in a survey that they feel stressed about their personal finances, according The Study on Collegiate Financial Wellness, a 2017 report by Ohio State University.

High school may have prepared you for college academically, but you may be less ready to handle your money, especially if you need student loans.

6/15/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Mars native hopes to own calligraphy business

Julia Myron, a Mars native, was recently awarded a Dream Support Grant through the National Society of Leadership and Success.

A Mars native has received a grant to help her start her own calligraphy business.

6/15/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Focusing on the kids

New Life Christian Ministries building 22,000-square-foot center for area children and youths

From left, Kristen Weidner, childrens director; Chris Marshall, lead pastor; and Karen Schiebel, outreach coordinator at New Life Christian Ministries in Clinton Township show off the space age art of the church's children and youth center.

CLINTON TWP — Visitors to the New Life Christian Ministries, 139 Knoch Road, for its upcoming July 3 fireworks show will notice a little less room to spread a blanket or set up a lawn chair.

6/14/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Classy Ensemble

79 BHS Latin students bring home second place in state

The Butler High School Junior Classical League is the biggest in the state and sent 79 members to Penn State last month to compete in the annual Pa. Junior Classical League State Convention. The Butler contingent came home with the second-place overall trophy.

For a language seen mostly in textbooks and heard mostly in church, Latin provided a fairly lively weekend for 79 Butler High School Latin students.

6/13/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Son wears father’s WWI uniform to tell veterans’ stories

Ervin Shudarek, 88, wears his father’s World War I uniform as he hands out small, handmade poppies made of tissue paper for National Poppy Day at the Copps grocery store in Plover, Wis.

PLOVER, Wis. — Ervin Shudarek looked every bit the soldier as he stood wearing the uniform on May 18 near the doors of the Copps grocery store off Plover Road.

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'Little Women' and author Alcott resonate 150 years later

An illustration and title page to the book Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, appear in an 1869 edition of the book at Orchard House, in Concord, Mass. Since “Little Women” was published 150 years ago, the coming of age book has been translated into more than 50 languages.

CONCORD, Mass. — A century and a half before the #MeToo movement gave women a bold, new collective voice, Louisa May Alcott was lending them her own.

6/13/2018 Community Features 0 comments

What’s on your bucket list?

Getting older doesn’t dull seniors’ passion for wishes

Henry Allhiser, 82, fell in love with Lady Gaga while watching her concerts on HBO at the Wesley Enhanced Living retirement community in Upper Moreland.

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Seneca Valley seventh-graders working hard in community

Gabriel Brown, a Seneca Valley Middle School seventh-grader, seals rust on a Cranberry Township snow plow as part of a community service project.

More than 100 seventh graders from Seneca Valley got to work Wednesday with a community service project that spanned the entire township.

6/11/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Local religious community weighs in on cake controversy

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips decorates a cake inside his store in Lakewood, Colo. His anti-discrimination case went to the Supreme Court.

Anyway you slice it, the Supreme Court's ruling last week backing a Colorado baker who refused to make a same-sex couple a wedding cake is going to leave a bad taste in someone's mouth.

6/9/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Vacation Bible Schools

The following churches have announced dates for vacation Bible schools:

6/9/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Camp kids

Young burn survivors continue recovery

Campers celebrate their time together with a game of Quidditch on Wednesday, their last day at the West Penn Burn Center Summer Camp.

Children from around the area came to camp YMCA CAMP Kon-O-Kwee Spencer this week for the West Penn Burn Center Summer Camp, a program to help young burn survivors to continue to recover physically and emotionally. .

6/8/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Riding for the Cure Bowl-a-thon set for June 15th

In 2017, the Riding for the Cure Bowl-a-thon crowd donned pink. The fourth annual Riding for the Cure Bowl-a-thon will be held June 15th at Family Bowlaway.

The Riding for the Cure Bowl-a-thon will be held on June 15.

6/8/2018 Community Features 0 comments

CDC: Suicide 10th leading cause of death in U.S.

More than a decade of steadily rising rates have made suicide the nation’s 10th leading cause of death and one of only three causes of death — including Alzheimer’s disease and drug overdoses — that are increasing in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease...

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Details of Diocese reshuffling emerge

More than two months after the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh announced plans to consolidate into 57 multi-site parishes by the end of 2023, some of the details are becoming clearer.

6/7/2018 Community Features 0 comments

Court bemoans 'hostility' to religion in wedding cake case

But what about President Trump's 'Muslim ban'?

Baker Jack Phillips, front, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, poses for a photograph with Sebastian Muller, an assistant pastor at Calvary South Denver Church, in Phillips' shop Monday in Lakewood, Colo., after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court resolved the case of a Christian baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple by ruling the government may not show “hostility” to religion.