2019 year in review
Butler Eagle photographers often have the perfect opportunity to capture Butler County at its best.
This sampling of the Eagle photographers favorite shots show residents and their pets enjoying their communities through the different seasons.
Extra photographs are shared daily in a photo gallery with online subscribers at www.butlereagle.com.
Ann Cheman of Harmony, a retired Seneca Valley school teacher, trains her dog, Kaylee, a German Shorthair Pointer, at Moraine State Park on a hot July day.
Kevin McAfee of Butler watches Bella, a yellow lab from DockDogs, jump into the dog jumping pool set up at Moraine State Park for regatta in early August.
Dressed in a homemade Animal costume from the Muppets, Luckas Morris, 2, reaches into a candy basket in one of the community neighborhood rooms at the New Haven Court at Clearview retirement home in October. Costume-clad kids crowded the halls and made their rounds in the senior community trick-or-treating with residents.
Bold plungers take a dip in the lower lake at Camp Lutherlynn Saturday morning for the organization's fourth annual Polar Plunge fund raiser. Volunteers had to break the ice on the lake with a kayak prior to the event. Participants raised over $13,000 for the camp's annual fund. Proceeds go to camper scholarships and other camp programs and maintenance. According to organizers, it was the first year the lake was ice covered.
U.S. Army veteran James Bianchi and fellow members of the Butler County Honor Guard salute a Missing Man Table, a ceremony honoring prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action, during a Veterans Day assembly for students at Butler Intermediate High School in November.
Five-year-old Jack Raybuck of Mars gets a little help with his first fish from his father, Curtis, during the Mentored Youth Trout Day at Glade Run Lake in Middlesex Township.
Morgan Slater of Slippery Rock tosses her rope in the women's cattle tying competition in August at the North Washington Rodeo.
