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Lowrie House packed with people — and cookies — at annual historical society event
Several days of baking led up to a two-hour period Saturday afternoon, Dec. 6. And as people lined up outside the Senator Walter Lowrie House 30 minutes before ...
Butler County school districts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about cyber charter funding reform
Butler County school officials have long taken issue with how their districts’ tax dollars were bring directed away to cyber charter schools in large quantities...
Slippery Rock, Knoch girls basketball honors late SRU coach Bobby McGraw after tip-off tournament
Slippery Rock girls basketball picked up its first win of the season, dominated Knoch and saw Madison Romanovich light up the court for 21 points Saturday to co...
Butler’s Main Street to welcome new brewery
Longtime friends announce plans for Hop Car Brewing
Penn Theater screening Polar Express with replica painting
At the Penn Theater, community members can celebrate the season by taking a trip to the North Pole this Sunday and learning about the Polar Express train. At 6...
Lowrie House packed with people — and cookies — at annual historical society eve...
Lowrie House packed wi...
Butler County school districts ‘cautiously optimistic’ about cyber charter fundi...
Butler County school d...
Slippery Rock, Knoch girls basketball honors late SRU coach Bobby McGraw after t...
Slippery Rock, Knoch g...
Butler’s Main Street to welcome new brewery
Butler’s Main Street t...
Penn Theater screening Polar Express with replica painting
Penn Theater screening...
Top Headlines
Harmony resident Ron Lalonde extended his “Jeopardy! winning streak to a third game in a show broadcast Friday night, Dec. 5. Lalonde — who is following in the footsteps ...
December 05, 2025 Local News
WINFIELD TWP — As hunters begin to harvest their game in the first week of rifle hunting season, meat processors are experiencing a parallel spike in business that tends ...
December 03, 2025 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — District Judge Kevin Flaherty held all charges for a man accused of lending out a care he was supposed to be repairing to Common Pleas Court on Friday, De...
December 06, 2025 Local News
Teamwork is the name of the game for Leadership Butler County participants and sometimes that reality hits harder for some than others according to Mark Buchek, chairman ...
December 06, 2025 Business
At its annual meeting on Thursday, Dec. 4, at UPMC Passavant-McCandless, a wide-ranging report highlighting the hospital’s achievements and expansions over the past year ...
December 06, 2025 Local News
News
A Cranberry Township man was arrested and charged with burglary and trespassing after police said he was found in an homeowner association clubhouse. Anthony Edwards-Hic...
December 06, 2025 Local News
Holiday-themed houseplants such as poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) and amaryllis (Amaryllis spp.) are often given as a token of friendship or as a holiday tradition. ...
December 06, 2025 Local News
December 06, 2025 Local News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports criminals are taking photos of loved ones off social media, altering them and sending them as proof-of-life photos of a kidnap...
December 06, 2025 Local News
The state Department of Transportation announced public voting will be open for this year’s Paint the Plow program, a statewide initiative that highlights safe winter dri...
December 06, 2025 Local News
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Community
Seneca Valley Senior High School alumna Sydney Brower earned the Girl Scout Gold Award aft...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
For the past week, Alameda Park in Butler Township has been decked out for the holiday sea...
December 04, 2025
It’s the time of year when Grupp’s Christmas Trees is open for the holiday season. The ow...
December 04, 2025
Below is a list of Butler County locations participating in the national “Wreaths Across A...
December 04, 2025
The annual Wreaths Across America tradition unofficially began in 1992, when the Worcester...
December 04, 2025
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Sports
CHERRY TWP — The first quarter Friday night at Moniteau didn’t sit well with Karns City se...
 
Joe Rapp hardly ever leaves the golf course, according to Union/A-C Valley boys coach Leo ...
December 05, 2025
Riley Kontul booked her second ticket to the PIAA Class 2A girls golf individual champions...
December 05, 2025
The United States could hardly have asked for a better draw at the 2026 World Cup. The co...
December 05, 2025
Mike Tomlin isn’t just hearing “Fire Tomlin!” chants from Steelers fans. A couple of the f...
December 05, 2025
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Editorial
For nearly 20 years now, Al Todd has helped make Christmas better for hundreds of children each year, not to mention taking a huge amount of stress of...
December 06, 2025 Our Opinion
December 06, 2025 Cartoons
As a lifelong Butler County resident, I support our local law enforcement officers who serve our community with dedication and integrity. That’s exact...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
As managing editor of the Butler Eagle, I would like to apologize for Friday’s editorial cartoon. It was inappropriate and does not reflect our values...
December 06, 2025 Our Opinion
Our current president is very busy. What with the nearly four-year Ukraine war not “settled in an hour, with a phone call.” War crimes, inflation, une...
December 06, 2025 Letters to the Editor
Business
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market rose to the edge of its all-time high on Friday. The S&P 500 added 0.2% and finished just 0.3% shy of its record clos...
December 05, 2025 Business
NEW YORK — Netflix struck a deal Friday to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind “Harry Potter” and HBO Max, in a $72 billion deal t...
December 05, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Two of the most popular streaming services have agreed to combine, in a move that could change the streaming service landscape. Netflix...
December 05, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
HARRISBURG — U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds. The company shut down t...
December 05, 2025 Business
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stop using certain types of glucose monitor sensors after the company that makes them, Abbo...
December 05, 2025 Business
Weekend Entertainment
Imagine sitting down after a few glasses of eggnog and flipping through every saccharine holiday movie on cable, but then, suddenly, the remote is stuck, the plots are me...
December 05, 2025 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
Not so many years ago, a typical advent calendar was a basic cardboard box containing some chocolates or other candies behind little daily windows. Today, advent calenda...
December 06, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
How do you top “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” the video game movie adaptation about murderous anthropomorphic robots? If it’s a battle for insipid nonsense, the answer is bli...
December 06, 2025 Reviews
After two installments of his “Knives Out” franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a gloomy and clunky outin...
December 06, 2025 Reviews
Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the clouds stay away from Butler, it should be a good...
December 06, 2025 Starwatch
Miley Cyrus and boyfriend Maxx Morando are engaged after four years together. The musicians, who have been linked since late 2021, sparked rumors of forthcoming nuptials ...
December 04, 2025 People
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Special Sections
The following is a list of church services to be held in Butler County and the surrounding area on or around the Christmas holiday. Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Catholi...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
1. 1971 2. Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar 3. Tiny Tim in “A Christmas Carol” 4. John Boy and Grandpa Walton 5. Jimmy Buffett 6. A Hula-Hoop 7. Paul Giamatti 8. New York C...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
With the holidays just around the corner, Santa Claus and his army of helpers have come to town. One such helper is Al Mazuch, who has acted as Santa’s eyes and ears at M...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
A holiday season in Butler County is always ripe with opportunities to explore, gather and give back. Below are just a few events that can put you in the spirit this mont...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
Bernice Hook, of Jefferson Township, was born the same year her first Christmas gift was created and both would celebrate their 89th holiday in December, 2010. “I was bor...
December 04, 2025 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK. Tkachenko,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
November 23, 2022 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
July 16, 2022 Local News
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
August 22, 2023 National News
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business

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