Rev up you motors in a salute to Chris Gatto, owner of Cycle Warehouse at the corner of South Main and Cunningham streets — one of Butler's busiest intersections.

Over the summer, passing traffic witnessed a transformation as the building's facades got a dramatic makeover.

A Harley orange stripe and diamond-plate steel accents add nice touches to an understated, battleship-gray and black exterior. It's a look that says “we've got all things motorcycle here” without shouting it.

The makeover dresses up a busy street corner that will only get busier with the anticipated Centre City project about to break ground across the street. That $10 million project, driven by the Butler Redevelopment Authority, will feature a 75-room Marriott Springhill Suites hotel, a three-tier parking garage and a new Rite-Aid pharmacy.

A new downtown landscape is emerging, a locale that says: “Welcome to Butler, a prosperous city.” And that is a welcome prospect in itself.

It's never a good idea to make false accusations against law enforcement officers. That's particularly true if one's motive is vengeance.Virginia Foster-Eisler faces misdemeanor charges of retaliation for past official action, making false reports and conspiracy.Police say the 51-year-old Eisler, of Prospect, notified FBI agents and claimed two state police officers groped her, harassed her and searched her home without producing a warrant.The state police internal affairs unit determined Eisler and her husband, John Eisler Jr., lied about the officers' purported misconduct because they were upset with the officers whose work helped put Virginia Eisler's son in prison for a rash of burglaries around Prospect a year earlier.In law enforcement, danger is an ever-present reality. State troopers, in particular, patrol large geographic areas, often without the assurance of immediate backup.It may be hard for some to put false accusations of misbehavior on a threat level as serious as an armed and dangerous suspect. But an accusation can end a career as completely as a bullet; and it also can scar a reputation.The law presumes Eisler and her husband are innocent until proven guilty; justice demands that the serious charges against them are vigorously prosecuted.

Cheers to the GetGo in Cranberry Crossings, which last week became Butler County's first service station to install compressed natural gas pumps.Compressed natural gas has the potential to become a cheap, clean alternative to gasoline. It's plentiful too, thanks to the discovery of vast stores of natural gas trapped in deep shale formations along with hydraulic “fracking” techniques to harvest the gas.Conventional vehicles can't run on CNG, but a few companies have begun converting. One of them, a Cranberry-based fleet of taxis owned by Robert DeLucia, includes 25 vehicles that run solely on CNG. DeLuca says he's delighted with the cost savings and believes it's only a matter of time before the market tips away from gasoline in favor of CNG.More CNG stations are sure to follow GetGo's lead. Availability to consumers, as much as any economic factor, will drive the development of this new technology.