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Your behavior just got caught on candid camera

For a Burger King employee in Butler Township, a video that went viral this week could possibly be seen as a blessing and a curse.

8/7/2020 Our Opinion 0 comments

Students need high-speed internet access

We recently received a call from a Butler County woman concerned that her 8-year-old grandson, whose home is not connected to broadband internet service, will have trouble keeping up with online...

8/6/2020 Our Opinion 0 comments

Safe2Say helps students, parents during pandemic

We’ve previously praised the state’s Safe2Say Something school reporting system on this page — and the program’s second annual report shows that it is providing an important...

8/5/2020 Our Opinion 0 comments

Even Haiti controlling pandemic better that U.S.

Ask yourself this question: How did we get here? How did the richest nation in the world, with the most expensive and most technically advanced health care system in the world, completely fail to contain a pandemic when we had been warned well in advance that it was coming?

8/7/2020 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Family grateful for funeral director’s help

On July 14, my husband of 53 years passed away after fighting a long battle with Lewy body dementia. When I knew it was time to ask for help, I signed him with Lutheran Senior Life VNA and at that time, I was ask what funeral home I wish to use.

8/7/2020 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

4-H, FFA livestock still available to buy

As the calendar turns to August we wonder where the summer has gone. Usually at this time of year members of the 4-H and FFA clubs are busy finalizing their project books and packing up supplies for the Butler Farm Show. Unfortunately not this year.

8/6/2020 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

COVID is exposing our failing institutions

We all know the fable of the frog put in a boiling pot that jumps out, while the frog sitting in a pot that slowly boils will be cooked to death, not really aware of its danger until it’s too late.

8/5/2020 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Don’t berate those who choose to wear a mask

Recently I was in line at a local store when one of the customers loudly berated the cashier for wearing a mask. It was obvious that she wanted everyone in the store to hear her opinion that masks do nothing to decrease the spread of COVID-19.

8/4/2020 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Leftist effort to revise American history

There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant’s first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin.