Virginia Shirey, mother of a former Freeport Area School District student who recently died, wants her son’s memory to impact those benefiting from the same programs he d...
BUFFALO TWP — Thanks to a rebalancing in millage rates and future debt payments due to the high school renovation project, Freeport Area School District’s Butler County r...
Parents and grandparents of Freeport Area School District students got to see them end one life chapter Friday, May 29, and prepare to begin another.
At Freeport’s gradu...
PLUM — Just moments after their season-ending 4-1 WPIAL Class 3A quarterfinal loss to No. 5 South Park on Tuesday evening, senior Kason Barker and junior Gavin Tola sat o...
WEST DEER TWP — Having worn an intense look on his face for most of Tuesday's WPIAL Class 3A first-round baseball playoff game, Gage Blystone let a grin peek out from beh...
Freeport baseball has had the kind of season that has the Yellowjackets' faithful anxious to see what the team is capable of in the playoffs.
The 2026 campaign has in...
NORTH HUNTINGDON TWP — Sitting down the first inning’s initial two batters during Monday’s WPIAL Class 4A first-round softball playoff was an easy task for Ali Smith and ...
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport Area School District proposed a budget for the 2026-27 school year that would see taxes go up for district residents in Butler County.
The district...
Freeport Area School District is holding a day of entrepreneurship event Tuesday, May 19, featuring entertainment from several artistic mediums.
The Freeport Entrepreneur...
For the past few seasons, Freeport’s baseball team has ditched a game ball.
Instead, standout players get to pull on a dog mask after an impact effort, an idea that assis...
Jennifer Sproull savored every minute of her high school athletic career.
“Sports was all I knew,” the 1991 Freeport graduate said. “I looked forward to it every day.”
Th...
JEFFERSON TWP — It wasn’t the perfect game. But it was close.
Marlee Fraser tossed a one-hitter, Knoch fielded the ball flawlessly and collected 12 hits in posting a 10-0...
Freeport pitchers Ashton Bricker and Jeffrey Coller limited Karns City to one earned run on two hits in a 13-3, six-inning baseball victory Friday in Russellton.
The Yell...
BUFFALO TWP — One milestone down, two to go.
Freeport senior goalkeeper Abigail Legin recorded the 500th save of her high school career Tuesday night as the Yellowjac...
ADAMS TWP — The standard is the standard.
“That’s a Mike Tomlin phrase we use a lot of around here,” Mars boys lacrosse coach Bob Marcoux said. “Whoever takes the field f...
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport Area School District is projecting a $41.19 million budget for the 2026-27 school year, up slightly from the current year.
The general operating b...
The season didn’t turn out how Aiden Bauman hoped, but the Freeport hockey senior forward will remember it for the career objective he was able to cross off.
In the Yello...
SOUTH PARK, Allegheny County — Moments after Jaisa Gaillot and Nia DiSanti saw the book close on their high school basketball careers, they posed for pictures and took tu...
BUFFALO TWP — Freeport Area School District officials are poised to accept a bid at their next meeting for the replacement of the high school library’s roof.
Brad Walker,...
BUFFALO TWP — The door leading to the WPIAL playoffs is not closed for Freeport boys basketball, but the Yellowjackets know they missed a golden opportunity Friday night....
JEFFERSON TWP — Joe Lafko tells his Knoch boys hoops team that, if the other team has 45 points or fewer at the end of the game, it usually results in a Knights win.
“I t...
On the local, statewide and national fronts, education has made the headlines repeatedly in 2025.
In Butler County, nine school districts have seen a mix of changes in c...
CHERRY TWP — Gavin Tola blamed a long bus ride. Freeport coach Rich Macura said it was because his team was simply “getting outworked.”
Whatever caused the slow start on ...
Amos Glenn started to crack up before recounting his first-ever touchdown.
“I think I was 5 years old, and I got the ball and I ran backwards,” the Freeport senior tailba...
BUFFALO TWP — Students from across Freeport Area School District joined in the holiday shopping rush Sunday, Dec. 7 — not as customers, but as merchants.
The school dist...
Already impressed by her first visit to Ohio University, Freeport junior soccer star forward Camryn Woods knew her college decision was a done deal after a second trip to...
A write-in candidate will join three incumbents taking seats on the Freeport Area School District board of directors, according to unofficial results from the Nov. 4 elec...
BUFFALO TWP — While some schools were off Tuesday, Nov. 11, Freeport Area High School students and staff were busy serving lunch to local veterans within the school distr...
