If someone crept onto your neighborhood school playground late at night and spray-painted dirty words on the blacktop, would you leave the graffiti there for your childr...
The South Butler School District is thinking about accepting a challenge that is well worth the effort. Superintendent David Foley said during the school district’s meet...
Tim Wendel’s baseball novel, “Castro’s Curveball,” tells how an aging minor-league catcher discovers a 20-year-old pitching ace in a Havana slum in 1947. The young Fidel...
We have dedicated copious space on this page to the opioid epidemic in Butler County, from editorials regarding the number of pregnant women using the drugs in Butler Co...
While the concept of making people work a little harder to cast their vote in elections is never ideal, a recently announced plan to consolidate some local polling place...
Tuesday was momentous for all Americans, especially for Pennsylvanians who lunched over Gov. Tom Wolf’s state budget proposal, and for dessert, got President Donald Trum...
The motto for the New York City subway system’s safety campaign is “If you see something, say something.”
While this might be an ideal message to encourage participatio...
Wherever Tuesday’s State of the Union address goes, rest assured it will be controversial. At least half the nation will take offense with President Trump’s words and wi...
Can you remember the good old days — say, 2015 or so — when we would say things like “can’t we all just get along?” or, “Butler doesn’t have a drug problem,” and we’d si...
While violence at schools has long been the most frightening prospect that American students face — and Butler County recently had a few scares of its own — the Seneca V...
