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Butler County athletes shine brightly at SRU

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8/8/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Home Cooking

Here are some of the top Butler County high school graduates to excel in athletics at Slippery Rock University:

8/8/2020 Community Features 0 comments

PROM ROYALTY

Knoch

SAXONBURG — Although Knoch High School’s official prom was canceled because of COVID-19 concerns, the Class of 2020 had already voted on a prom king and queen. Recently, Todd Trofimuk, KHS Principal, met the winners at Roebling Park to present them with their crowns.

8/8/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Animal rescue group calls off its fundraiser

Sale violates twp. ordinance

Patricia Potter, president of Stray Solutions Animal Rescue, had to cancel the organization's yard sale or face a $600/day fine for violating Butler Township's zoning ordinance.

An animal rescue organization's plans for its third annual garage sale fundraiser this week in Butler Township were canceled after group members were told the sale would violate a township ordinance.

8/7/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Butler Memorial Park pool to become memory

Teachers led effort to save city venue

After being dry for 16 years and in need of major structural repairs, the pool and pool house at Memorial Park in Butler are on their way to becoming memories.

8/5/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Group effort at school Parents pitch in, set up new playground

Dave Casile, of Snyder and Associates, digs a posthole with volunteer Jason Zigler during Saturday's playground construction at Moraine Elementary in Prospect. The installation was the culmination of a yearlong fundraising effort by the PTO.
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PROSPECT — It takes a lot of work to build a playground.

8/3/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Calling It Quits

After 42 years, umpire Dick Doutt schedules his final season

Retiring Butler County umpire Dick Doutt prepares to make a call at the plate during a Saxonburg-Slippery Rock American Legion baseball game in 2014. Doutt is ending his 42-year umpiring career this season.

Dick Doutt is more than just an umpire.

8/1/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Youth center tradition Petroleum Valley Summer Camp wraps up

Carter Farren and Tyler Blair race across the pond at the Petroleum Valley Summer Camp on Wednesday. More than 100 children from third through ninth grades are participating in camp activities, fishing and boating this year, including the annual canoe races.

The Petroleum Valley Summer Camp wraps up Friday.

7/31/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Missing 'ghost bike' tribute to cyclist found

Christina Teimouri and her husband, Craig DeBiase, take a moment to reflect after the return of the ghost bike memorializing her son, Alek, Wednesday at the Cranberry Township Police department.

It took more than a week, but a tribute to a fallen bicyclist has been found.

7/30/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Seeing Stripes: Zonkey named Zeus draws stares at Meridian Road farm

Zeus, the Zonkey, lives on Meridan road at the farm of Kathy Kummer.

There have been reports of people pulling their cars off Meridian Road to get a better look at the strange creature cavorting in a pasture.

7/29/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Reunion Crew

Penn Christian Academy alumni return to volunteer

Nathan Glassic of Penn Twp. and a rising 11th grader at Knoch volunteered to help spruce up Penn Christian Academy with fellow alums Monday, July 27, 2020.

Members of the Penn Christian Academy class of 2016 held a working reunion at the school Monday.

7/28/2020 Community Features 0 comments

Catch of the Day

Kids Fishing Days bring out families

Justin Ross of Butler takes a fish off the line for his 4-year-old daughter, Brooklyn, at Kids Fishing Days, hosted by Concordia Lutheran Ministries, at Saxony Farm Estates in Saxonburg on Saturday.

With summer events across Butler County canceled due to concerns for COVID-19, organizers of Concordia Lutheran Ministries annual Fishing Derby for Kids decided to get creative.

7/27/2020 Community Features 0 comments

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Verse

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her [the woman caught in adultery]," - John 8:7