On some occasions, ordinances come about because rules you’d expect people to follow of their own volition aren’t being observed.
On others, ordinances might not adequa...
Has anyone ever referred to part of Butler County as East Butler County and West Butler County?
Was there ever a wall built to separate those on the east side, closer to...
For the second week in a row, Western Pennsylvania lost a toddler to drowning.
This week it happened in McKean County, and last week it was Armstrong.
These tragic accid...
Shortly past 7 a.m. Tuesday morning, we stopped in a gas station on Jefferson Street. The few people there were buzzing about a breaking news story happening just a bloc...
The Butler Health System Administration hosted a Zoom meeting Monday to discuss the latest information on COVID-19, the delta variant, the number of local cases and the ...
With schools starting back soon, now is a good time to remind ourselves about some simple rules for school safety.
There are rules and guidelines for students, for paren...
“When I was his age” is a phrase usually followed by a negative comment about how much harder life was for the person speaking or how much tougher the world was.
You kn...
Please give credit to the local volunteer and non-paid boards that try to maintain policies to keep the community that they serve prosperous, but also safe, through dili...
Best wishes, Butler School Superintendent Dr. Brian White.
You can talk about “you’re-damned if-you-do and-damned-if-you-don’t” situations, but there is no worse positio...
Some good news came out of Slippery Rock University last week as the school announced it was adding a new health care-centered college to its offerings.
The College of H...
