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JEFFERSON TWP — While contractors are moving quickly to finish everything in time, a hurdle imposed by PennDOT could create a headache in Knoch High School’s renovation p...
July 10, 2025 Local News
JEFFERSON TWP — While outdoor temperatures shoot up into the 90s, a group of Knoch students are in the classroom continuing to explore their interests around science, tec...
June 26, 2025 Local News
Zane Pacek has a towering stature ready-made for the basketball court. The rising Knoch senior has been a key part of the Knights’ front court the past three seasons, hel...
June 20, 2025 Sports
JEFFERSON TWP — Knoch School District will not raise taxes for the eighth year in a row. Knoch’s school board unanimously approved the district’s proposed budget for the...
June 19, 2025 Local News
Despite a deficit that grew over the past month, Knoch School District is adamant that taxes will not be raised for the 2025-26 school year. The finalized version of the ...
June 12, 2025 Local News
Avery Adams Elizabeth Aites Oleena Antkowiak Joshua Armour Hallie Avon Katie Barlow Maggie Barnes Brooke Bastin Cooper Belak Melody Berasi Anderson Blakley Daniel Bogacz ...
June 04, 2025 Special Sections
Knoch High School’s commencement ceremony took place at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at Knoch High School’s football stadium. The speakers were the school’s top three in the ...
June 04, 2025 Special Sections
Knoch High School’s commencement ceremony took place at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at Knoch High School’s football stadium. The speakers were the school’s top three in the ...
May 29, 2025 Local News
The WPIAL baseball tournament continues this week with the last quarterfinals and all semifinals. The Butler Golden Tornado, Seneca Valley and Mars are the last Butle...
May 25, 2025 Sports
Knoch School District is ducking away from raising taxes. Knoch’s school board approved a preliminary general budget for the 2025-26 year at its Wednesday, May 14 meetin...
May 17, 2025 Local News
Knoch High School students will have a new resource available to them others normally don’t: a radio station. Knoch’s school board approved the district acquisition of W...
May 17, 2025 Local News
If you want to impact the future and shape the formative years of hundreds of youths, become a school board member. “Great school boards understand they have (a) profound...
May 16, 2025 Local News
Joe Lafko’s break lasted a year. The longtime Hampton boys basketball head coach was officially approved to be Knoch’s next coach Wednesday night, May 14, at the Knoch Sc...
May 15, 2025 Sports
WEXFORD — Working on a three-hit shutout, Ambridge left-hander Joe Leseiko was forced to sit down due to an hour-and-40-minute lightning and rain delay Wednesday at North...
May 14, 2025 Sports
Multiple factors combine to determine the result of a softball game, and in all three phases, Knoch has been stout this season. The Knights will carry a 17-3 record into ...
May 12, 2025 Sports
Knoch High School's Prom is Friday, May 9, at Freedom Farms. The prom king and queen will be crowned beforehand at the prom walk at Knoch Athletic Stadium. Prom court con...
May 08, 2025 Local News
Junior Knoch boys basketball standout Jackson Bauman and his sophomore brother, Brody, are transferring to Moon. The family’s move is for father Alan Bauman's job, he sai...
May 07, 2025 Sports
Butler County schools are holding ceremonies for seniors committing to college athletic programs next year, this time during the spring signing period. Here are the Butle...
May 06, 2025 Sports
JEFFERSON TWP — It will go down as one of the stranger games played this season by Knoch’s softball team. Most importantly, the result was one the Knights have become ver...
April 30, 2025 Sports
The WPIAL announced the boys and girls team track and field championship brackets Thursday afternoon. Butler County is particularly well represented with seven teams ...
April 24, 2025 Sports
Knoch High School’s music department is hosting a special “Celebration of Jazz” concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24. The concert will feature Knoch’s high school and mi...
April 19, 2025 Local News
Santino Sloboda may not use a textbook strategy on the wrestling mat, but no one can argue with the results. The Butler junior and University of Pittsburgh commit, al...
April 15, 2025 Sports
Over the last two seasons, high school girls wrestling has gained a strong foothold in Butler County. Varsity teams were formed at Butler and Seneca Valley in 2023 and Kn...
April 15, 2025 Sports
A former elementary school teacher at Knoch School District is accused of threatening to kick an 8-year-old student with autism following an earlier incident where she al...
April 14, 2025 Local News
A Knoch Primary School teacher has been fired after an incident that led state police to charge her with striking a student in the face, the school district announced Fri...
April 12, 2025 Local News
Knoch boys basketball coach Alan Bauman has stepped down following a 19-8 season in which the Knights reached the PIAA Tournament for the first time in nearly two decades...
April 10, 2025 Sports
Seneca Valley’s Gracie Cato and Knoch’s Teegan Finucan took part in the inaugural CJ2K Vs. The World “Bigger Than Basketball” Charity Classic at Aliquippa High School. Th...
April 10, 2025 Sports
An elementary school teacher at Knoch School District is accused of hitting an 8-year-old boy in the face, according to state police. Police plan to charge Carly Miller, ...
April 10, 2025 Local News
JEFFERSON TWP — A month after the Knoch School District voted to join in a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission regarding sex discrimination regulatio...
April 09, 2025 Education
Knoch School District’s high school renovation project is inching toward completion. “Since the last meeting, there’s been a lot of finished work that’s being finalized,...
April 04, 2025 Local News
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