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Local News
ZELIENOPLE — Hundreds of families came to town for three annual Easter activities on Holy Saturday. The morning began with “Breakfast with the Bunny” at the English Luth...
April 04, 2026 Local News
MIDDLESEX TWP — Friday night rain gave way to sunshine Saturday and the fish were biting for the opening day of the statewide trout season. The shoreline, pier and dam at...
April 04, 2026 Local News
Volunteers and attendees marked Good Friday with a fish fry at the St. Wendelin Church Hall as the traditional season for foregoing meat on Fridays observed by some Chris...
April 04, 2026 Local News
Pennsylvania state police is accepting applications from men and women for cadet training to become state troopers. Applications should be submitted via the state’s emplo...
April 04, 2026 Local News
MARS — After Jesus, the star of the show at St. John Lutheran Church of Mars on Good Friday, April 3, was Pete the donkey. Pete served as a calm, welcoming, roughly 500 ...
April 04, 2026 Local News
EMS agencies can’t count on being paid
April 04, 2026 Local News
The current emergency medical services crisis facing Butler County isn’t the first. While the county commissioners are funding ongoing training programs for emergency med...
April 04, 2026 Local News
The Tri-County Workforce Investment Board has opened up applications for scholarships aimed to help students looking for an education in technology fields. Scholarships a...
April 04, 2026 Business
Other News
JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump announced early Sunday that the U.S. had rescued an aviator nearly two days after he was shot down over Iran. The extraction came afte...
April 05, 2026 National News
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In rain, snow and bitter cold, a steady drumbeat of small protests have been held in recent months on the Ohio State University main campus with a single...
April 04, 2026 National News
Sports
There’s a portion of the lower Allegheny River — found within a several mile stretch that spans two navigation dams — that often excels at producing quality-sized smallmo...
April 05, 2026 Sports
Chris Gardner and his Knoch softball assistant coaches know by now that Emersyn Jones is prone to thump pitches over outfielders’ heads. Having watched the then-freshman ...
April 04, 2026 Sports
When it comes to closing out a playing career, one would be hard-pressed to top what Jackson Krock just contributed to. The 2019 Mars Area High School graduate, a senior ...
April 04, 2026 Sports
Editorial
On the morning of March 17, our quiet retired morning turned nearly disastrous. I discovered the shop and barn were on fire. After what seemed like hours on the phone wit...
April 04, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Congratulations to Ed Codi, former teacher at the Butler high school, on his book, “The Brothers Saul.” Three brothers from Butler, whose tour de force in the game of foo...
April 04, 2026 Letters to the Editor
“Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” — President Donald J. Trump Is this what a president should say about a veter...
April 04, 2026 Letters to the Editor
We no longer have students in any of the schools but I really enjoy the “Soar” insert. I often see someone I know (usually a student from our church), and the art work is...
April 04, 2026 Letters to the Editor
As a young, politically engaged person living in the U.S., it is easy to feel overwhelmed at the multitude of headlines detailing the violence and conflict going on acros...
April 04, 2026 Letters to the Editor
Community
Announcements
Nora Eyth, of Oakland Township, celebrated her 95th birthday on March 31. The former Nora Adams was born on March 31, 1931, in Kaylor, Pa. Eyth has four children, Shirley...
April 04, 2026 Birthday Tributes
Arts & Entertainment
Two couples. Too much wine. One loaded question: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? The revelations that tumble from that truth-or-dare-style drinking game badly te...
April 04, 2026 Reviews
There are some things you might expect, even count on, in a Super Mario Galaxy movie. The introduction of the celestial Princess Rosalina? Check. A scene of her reading b...
April 04, 2026 Reviews
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