Home delivery for students

Gary Thompson, a police officer for the Butler Area School District, drops off bags of food to students' homes Friday along Negley Avenue. School police force members took to the streets as part of the district's food service initiative that is providing 1,300 students with two meals a day, seven days a week during the school closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The 18,000 meals served each week include both hot, reheatable and cold meal and are delivered three days a week. While 65 percent of the meals are being delivered to students who registered, 35 percent of the meals are being picked up at Center Avenue and Emily Brittain sites.

School police force members took to the streets as part of the district's food service initiative that is providing 1,300 students with two meals a day, seven days a week during the school closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Wolf shuts down K-12 schools

Closures to run through March 27

Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday afternoon all Pennsylvania kindergarten through grade 12 schools will be closed from March 16 to 27 in response to the novel coronavirus 2019 pandemic.

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Wolf shuts down K-12 schools

Closures to run through March 27

Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday afternoon all Pennsylvania kindergarten through grade 12 schools will be closed from March 16 to 27 in response to the novel coronavirus 2019 pandemic.

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PIAA PRESSES PAUSE

3A swimming canceled; 2A postponed

Butler senior Laura Goettler won the PIAA Class 3A title in the 100 breaststroke Thursday, but it wasn't the way she wanted it to happen. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the PIAA canceled the 3A finals and Goettler was crowned based on her first-place finish in the preliminary race.

Baily Trettel and Katelyn Reott left their homes at 6:30 a.m. Thursday to make the long trek to Bucknell University to check in for the PIAA Class 2A Swimming and Diving Championships.

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PIAA PRESSES PAUSE

Hoop tourney on hold

Butler boys, NC boys and girls teams in limbo

Butler's Charlie Kreinbucher contorts himself while going up for a shot during the Golden Tornado's 77-73 PIAA Class 6A second-round playoff win over Upper St. Clair Wednesday night. Thursday morning the PIAA Board of Directors voted unanimously to suspend the tournament for at least two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving Butler in limbo.

March Sadness.

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Painful Defeat

Mars falls in OT in first round of state playoffs

Mars' Joe Craska (21) takes a shot against Elizabethtown's Alex O'Shea (14). The Planets fell to Elizabethtown 68-66 in overtime in the PIAA state playoffs.

NEW KENSINGTON — Mars' gameplan was born out of necessity — and it almost worked.

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PIAA swimming nothing new to Blazer

SV senior will make 4th appearance at state meet

Butler's Laura Goettler swims in the 200-yard individual medley at the WPIAL Class 3A championships at the University of Pittsburgh. Goettler is seeking a second consecutive PIAA Class 3A crown in the breaststroke next week at Bucknell University.

The excitement that comes with preparing for swimming's state championship meet is nothing new to Owen Blazer, who will make his fourth appearance at the PIAA Class 3A event Wednesday and Thursday at Bucknell University.

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4 county matmen in semis

CANONSBURG — Four Butler County wrestlers qualified for the semifinal round of the WPIAL Class AAA Championships Friday night at Canon-McMilla High School.

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Butler, USC ready for showdown

Highest-scoring hoop teams in WPIAL 6A meet Wednesday with fi nals berth on line

BUTLER TWP — The pressure is off — sort of.

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Raiders sending a dozen to WPIAL

Knoch's DeLeonardis denied 160-pound title

O'HARA TWP — Seneca Valley's wrestling program made history Saturday.

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Cherished Championship

Starters on Karns City's 2000 PIAA Class AA girls basketball championship team were, from left, Courtney Rattigan, Karissaa Kusick, Alicia Anderson, Ronda Vlassich and Kerry Gutherie.

Courtnay (Rattigan) Bryson sometimes thinks back to her magical senior season at Karns City.

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Butler basketball players rejoin program as coaches Extended family affair

Current Butler junior varsity basketball coach Bobby Swartwout (43) celebrates after his Golden Tornado team upset No. 1 seed Shaler in the 2011 WPIAL playoffs. Mavrik Clement, on Swartwout's shoulders, is a sixth-grader in the program now. Zach Slomers (red-haired youth at left), Mattix Clement (Butler jersey at right) and Madden Clement (reaching out at lower right) are on this year's varsity team.

lay at home, coach at home. � Matt Clement has lived that through Butler High School baskeball. Now a whole lot of people are living it right behind him.