Rain held off on May 10, 2008, for members of the then-largest graduating class of Slippery Rock University to receive their degrees at the N. Kerr Thompson Stadium with ...
The weather on Monday, June 11, 1984, was exceedingly hot, but the climate provided perfect conditions for tadpole hunting.
Jason Sessons and Terry Fedokovitz, both 9, of...
More than 30 workers between the ages of 18 and 25 constructed the Spring Valley Playground in Clinton Township in 2008, after being organized by the township, county and...
Cranberry Township donated 190 recycling bins to Haine Middle and Rowan Elementary schools as part of Earth Day observances in April 2010. The schools placed the bins in ...
People of all ages and backgrounds gathered Monday afternoon, Aug. 21, 2017, in Diamond Park, and along the sidewalks of downtown Butler to view a 79% eclipse of the sun....
More than 10,000 panels of glass that made up the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. Window No. 2707 belonged to Norman R. Tuck by 2012.
In 1973, Tuck got the idea...
On March 28, 2012, more than 240 student science projects were displayed at Mars Area Elementary School, some by individuals and some by groups of students who worked tog...
More than 2,500 Easter revelers kicked off their 2008 holiday weekend March 21 at Victory Family Church's “Eggstravaganza.”
While thousands of plastic Easter eggs made a ...
Students at Slippery Rock University competed in a scavenger hunt March 14, 2005, for a chance to throw a pie in the face of a math professor at the school.
The deadline ...
Joe Wos, a cartoonist and storyteller from the ToonSeum, tells a story to students at Mars Primary Center on Friday, March 6, 2009.
Wos’ appearance was one of the activi...
One puff and four candles went out.
Four leap year lassies born Feb. 29, 1968, at Butler County Memorial Hospital, shared a "first birthday" cake on leap day afternoon a...
The Antique Motor Coach Association of Pittsburgh, the group responsible for restoring the Harmony Short Line Bus 775, found a new home for its motor coach fleet in Porte...
The Four Points by Sheraton Pittsburgh North was lined with what was possibly miles of yarn on Valentine’s Day weekend in 2010, for the sixth annual Pittsburgh Knit and C...
Dawna “Mitzi” Rice attended Zelienople Grade School as a child, where a classmate told her about a pen pal project in which she and an Australian sixth-grader would write...
On Feb. 11, 2012, amid temperatures in the 20s, high winds and heavy snowfall, people jumped into icy Lake Arthur wearing everything from swimsuits to a tuxedo T-shirt.
“...
The Butler Junior Chamber of Commerce had its annual Distinguished Service Award banquet scheduled Feb. 7, 1970.
James E. Jones was announced as winner of the Junior Outs...
Despite a temperature forecast that had the thermometer dropping to single digits by Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, coats, hats, gloves and scarves were going unused in a storag...
Mark Rikal presented a banner to the Navy Mothers Club, Victor Thomas Rikal Senior Post 981 of Butler, in honor of his brother, who went down at sea in June 1969.
Additio...
A fire burned down a cinder block barn on Jan. 5, 1970, after pigs in a barn on Butler Road knocked an electric heating lamp onto some straw.
The Vadnal farm lost 102 pig...
Seneca Valley High School’s junior varsity team stayed undefeated in its 1970 season when the boys beat Butler High School junior varsity squad 53-45 in the final two min...
William McDanald enlisted with the Pennsylvania state police in 1907, when Troop D was stationed in Punxsutawney, and he worked as a state trooper until he was discharged...
Women of St. Michael’s Guild at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church in Butler donated the first $200 to the “DeAngelo Fund.” The group created the fund to help the DeAngelo...
“Let’s Serve Cheese” was the title of the first-place winners at the future homemakers competition in December 1970, and it was created by the Future Homemakers at Knoch ...
Culinary students at Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School learned how to prepare a feast for many people in November 2016 by cooking up Thanksgiving foods for a...
The Butler Junior Trojanettes had a banquet Nov. 14, 1970 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their founding, which was attended by present and former members of the g...
Butler High School seniors Rick Elias and Dennis Naidus received top awards at a cross country banquet on Nov. 7, 1971.
Rick received the Dennis Coyle Award, which is giv...
Butler firefighters were hard pressed for about 20 minutes as a house on Coal Street burned on Nov. 2, 1971, but they eventually got the blaze under control.
Still, the u...
A total of 270 youngsters attended a Halloween party put on by the Butler YMCA on Oct. 26, 1971.
While the annual Butler YMCA Cadet and Prep Halloween party garnered hund...
The Saxonburg Fire Hall would become a ballroom Oct. 22, 1971, but instead of traditional ballroom dancing, guests would instead partake in round and square dances.
The P...
