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Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019

Comprehensive plan to be created by Lancaster Twp.

LANCASTER TWP — Supervisors Monday approved the creation of the township's first comprehensive plan in 15 years.

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Sailor in iconic V-J Day kiss photograph dies, 95

Sailor George Mendonsa and Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant, share an iconic kiss in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, to celebrate the end of World War II. Mendonsa, 95, died Sunday.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II died Sunday. George Mendonsa was 95.

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Local

Roger Myers

SV senior is Coke Scholarship finalist

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Death Notices

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Difficult Discussion

After defacing of Black History Month poster, diversity forum held at SRU

A packed house attends the “Campus Race and Diversity Discussion” at Slippery Rock University Monday.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Students, faculty and staff of Slippery Rock University worked their way through a difficult conversation Monday night.

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Police talk to suspect in shooting

Shots fired at house in city

Police identify, question suspect in shooting of house with five inside; no one injured

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Body of missing man discovered

Police say death was by suicide

A person walking Satruday in state game lands in Cherry Township found the body of Richard Dale Dublin who had been missing since Feb. 4.

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Flexible instruction days are key to new SV school calendar

The biggest question in Seneca Valley School District's 2019-20 calendar remains: What will happen to Flexible Instructional Days?

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Seneca Valley session looks at teen vaping

'Healthy Schools' event Wednesday

It can be uncomfortable to discuss teens vaping, drinking and using drugs, but Seneca Valley School District believes it is an important first step in the prevention process.

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Town & County

CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY Tuesday is Connor Pflugh, 4, son of Ryan and Ashley Pfl ugh of Eau Claire.

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He usurped the purse

In civics class I was taught Congress had the “power of the purse.”So it struck me that the state of emergency declared by the president runs counter to the tenets of democracy we were taught in school. A president came to Congress with a request for funding but Congress said “we don’t want to empty our purse this way.”

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Don’t drive distracted

I read with great interest the letter from Denny Offstein in the Feb. 8, Butler Eagle. The writer makes some excellent points and I commend him for his concern for the motoring public.

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Politicians sank the Amazon deal

Oh hi there, fellow New Yorker picking through the rubble after the collapse of a deal that would’ve brought up to 40,000 good jobs and solidified the city’s tech-industry leadership for a generation: Can we now talk rationally about incentives designed to attract businesses to our city and state?

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Stop boasting black jobless rates

At every rally, during every speech, during many cabinet meetings and often on Twitter, President Donald Trump asserts a fact as evidence of the nation’s strong economy: Unemployment rates for black and Hispanic Americans are at record lows. This is largely correct.

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Voters driving for bargains still should shop for value

Does anyone remember the Chrysler K-car? Not the K-cup. The K-car. The series of mid-size autos, all built on the same chassis in the 1980s, in response to caravans of Japanese and European compact imports invading the U.S. market as the OPEC oil embargo sparked fuel shortages and spiked gasoline prices.

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'Jackets stung

Freeport girls nipped by QV in playoffs, 41-38

Freeport guard Madeline Clark (15) shoots over Quaker Valley defenders during the Yellowjacklets' 41-38 WPIAL Class 4A girls basketball playoff loss Monday night at North Allegheny.

WEXFORD — After Harley Holloway hit a 3-pointer in the waning seconds of the third quarter to give the Freeport girls basketball team a 30-27 lead, it looked as if the Yellowjackets had shaken off the rust and doldrums that had dogged them for the first 24 minutes.

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BEST FEET FORWARD

Students collect thousands of shoes for people in need

Boxes and bags containing 3,000 boots, sneakers and other types of footwear fill a room at Mars Elementary School, where students in four fourth-grade classes collected the shoes to help people in need.

There's a room in the Mars Elementary School with 3,000 shoes.

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Butler Twp. OKs plan for eye care office

Sheetz liquor license transfer hearing set

The Butler Township commissioners on Monday approved the land development plan for Butler Eye Care to construct a new office building.

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Police: Farm tractor used to kill cow

GREENSBURG — State police are trying to find the people who used a piece of farm machinery to impale an Angus cow and then left the animal to die on a farm.

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Ex-boyfriend is 'person of interest' in disappearance

John Eugene Colbert, 30, of New Castle is a person of interest in the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, police said.

'Person of interest' sought in case of missing woman

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Chicora man, sex offender, accused of touching girl

A young girl accused a 50-year-old of sexually touching her over the last two years.

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Farmers dislike Sunday hunting plan

Lawmakers advance bill changing laws

Evelyn Minteer holds the rifle that she uses to hunt small game on her farm in Franklin Township on Thursday. Minteer, like a number of other farmers in Butler County, opposes a plan to open 14 Sundays to hunting in Pennsylvania.

Hunters and farmers in Butler County have mixed opinions about proposals to allow hunting on Sundays and moving the opening day of the deer season to the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

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Police Reports

These items have been collected from various police departments.

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School threat system receives thousands of tips in 1st month

Center takes calls 24-hours a day

Sara Smith, left, and her daughter Karina Smith visit a makeshift memorial outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting last year in Parkland, Fla.

HARRISBURG — A threat reporting system now required for all Pennsylvania schools fielded more than 4,900 tips in its first month, about a third of them considered serious enough to pass along to local police and school officials.

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Trivia

What pitcher holds the Pirate record for career strikeouts?

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Bucs’ shortstop spot up for grabs

BRADENTON, Fla. — Erik Gonzalez and Kevin Newman are competing to start at shortstop for Pittsburgh, the one open position in the Pirates’ everyday lineup.

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Lady Knights come close

But E-F secures 51-42 playoff win

MT. LEBANON — Knoch had an answer every time Elizabeth Forward was on the verge of pulling away.

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Raider hockey seeks reversal

SV drops 10th in last 11 games, 5-2

WARRENDALE — Seneca Valley hockey dropped its final regular-season game to Cathedral Prep Monday night, 5-2, at the Baierl Ice Complex.

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Ex-Penguin Jagr returns to ice in Czech Republic at age 47

HAVIROV, Czech Republic — Jaromir Jagr is back again.

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Murray prepared to overcome height issue as quarterback

FORT WORTH, Texas — Now that Kyler Murray has decided to play in the NFL instead of reporting to spring training as a first-round draft pick by baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the questions can shift to the Heisman Trophy winner’s height.

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Area Bowling Results

Butler City Ten Pin

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4 SRU equestrian members advance

SLIPPERY ROCK — The Western Equestrian Club at Slippery Rock University has qualified four club members for the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association semifinals in Logan, Utah, March 16-17.

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Butler hockey falls, 5-2

Bennett Thrash and Jerome Oliver each scored goals for the Butler hockey team, but the Golden Tornado fell to North Allegheny, 5-2, Monday night.

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Events

Tuesday

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Giving Back

Former Knoch hoop standout Faulx enjoying time as Valley boys coach

Valley High School boys basketball coach Mark Faulx, a Knoch graduate and former point guard for the Knights, watches his team in action duiring the WPIAL Class 3A playoffs last weekend.

FOX CHAPEL — If there's one thing Mark Faulx knows, it's basketball.

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Swim lessons

JACKSON TWP — The Seneca Valley Swim Club has announced its spring evening and Spring Saturday dates and times for its Learn to Swim program.

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MLB fans should boycott?

NEW YORK — Players’ union head Tony Clark took the extraordinary step of saying baseball fans should question whether it makes sense to purchase tickets for some teams, responding to Commissioner Rob Manfred’s assertion that free-agent players have failed to adjust their economic demands in a market upended by analytics.

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Bulletin Board

Tuesday

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Sarver 95th birthday

Ruth Sarver

Ruth Sarver of Rochester will celebrate her 95th birthday Feb. 24 with a family dinner in Rochester.

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Senior Calendar

Butler

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Officer activates 'man down' button during scuffle

Corey Doerr

BUTLER TWP — A police officer had to activate his “man down” button Sunday afternoon during a scuffle with a suspected drunken driver.

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Buffalo soldier, 98, doesn't want black history erased

Descendants help tell their untold stories

Dee Craig-Arnold, a Navy veteran, holds a photograph of her grandfather, Sgt. Alfred Jerome Franklin, a prominent member of the Buffalo Soldiers who participated in the Battle of San Juan Hill.

When Clyde Robinson was drafted into the U.S. Army's 9th Cavalry Regiment in 1942, he had never heard of the buffalo soldiers. He did not know that he would become part of the storied, complicated legacy of the all-black regiments of the U.S. military.

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Police say 2 on ambulance crew were attacked

Travis Duttine

Police: man high on drugs bites, kicks ambulance medics

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Senior Menus

Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and the Southeast Center will serve these menus for the week beginning Wednesday.

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Telecast of Oscars will exceed 3 hours

The producers of the Academy Awards are conceding that despite hopes otherwise, this Sunday’s telecast will run more than three hours.

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People

Harrison Ford

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Actor Harrison Ford has offered an emphatic plea for protecting the world's oceans while calling out President Donald Trump and others who “deny or denigrate science.”

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