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2020-09-12 01:00:00

Eli Reese, a senior at Knoch High School, carries the American flag onto the field Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, for the season opener with Highlands.

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This tractor-trailer was damaged in a collision with a car on Sarver Road in Buffalo Township on Friday afternoon, Sept. 11, 2020.Steve Ferris/Butler Eagle

Army veteran Kurt Esman of Butler spends time and skills helping other veterans record their stories for the Library of Congress, one of his many vocations. See the story in the Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, edition of the Butler Eagle.Eric Jankiewicz/Butler Eagle

Work at the intersection of Route 228 and Route 8 in Middlesex Township represents just part of the improvements underway along the Route 228 corridor. See the story about the $25 million grant secured for the work in the Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, edition of the Butler Eagle.Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle

Gustave Guenther of the Bantam Marine Detachment 743 of Butler takes part in the 9/11 memorial service at Butler Township Community Park on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle

Gary Neely of the Bantam Marine Detachment 743 of Butler took part in the 9/11 memorial service at Butler Township Community Park on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle

Freeport’s Jacksen Reiser takes down Deer Lakes’ Nigel Rossman during the football game at Freeport High School on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Erica Dietz/Special to the Eagle

A lone person in the stands watches the Freeport vs. Highlands football game at Freeport High School on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Erica Dietz/Special to the Eagle

Knoch runningback Keagan Fraser looks to turn it up field in the second quarter of the season opener against Highlands on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle

Mars senior runningback Teddy Ruffner breaks a long run for a touchdown to put the Planets up 28-13 over Hampton with 1:03 left in the third quarter on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Mars’ Jake Wooldridge (1) fights through a stiff arm to take down Hampton runningback Joe Liberto (24) in the red zone in the first half Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle

Moniteau’s Mason Mershimer tries to split the Karns City defense consisting of Mason McNany (55) and Gage Cowoski (4) at Moniteau High School on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Steven Dalton/Special to the Eagle

Karns City’s Brayden Christie looks for an opening against Moniteau at Moniteau High School on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Steven Dalton/Special to the Eagle

The little red caboose from Cooper Station makes its way to its new home in Cabot alongside the Butler-Freeport Community Trail on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle

A Steighner crane operator directs the two sets of “trucks,” the 1929 cast steel wheels that go under the caboose, onto the tracks ready for the caboose from Cooper Station on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle

Tony Lemons, left, and Nancy Enright of West Sunbury swing their 3-year-old great-grandson Logan Messer at the Lakeview Beach on the North Shore of Moraine State Park on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020.Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle