South Butler School Board member George Zacherl has kept on the nice-guys’ path so far in his dispute over how the board conducts its business. So far that path hasn’t t...
It’s not the Eagle’s preference to get swept up in national or international affairs, especially those involving celebrity scandals. But sometimes these affairs, or the ...
Mere days after the Butler Farm Show closed its gates, while the carnival lights, sounds and aromas still linger in our collective conscience, let’s consider a rhetorica...
Cornell University historian George Lincoln Burr once observed that “the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered.”
It’s a good thing for all Ameri...
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If you’ve never come home to a flooded basement or — even worse — a flooded house in general, you can be forgiven for not grasping how important it is to address ...
In case you hadn’t heard, 2018 is a bad time to be a dairy farmer in Pennsylvania. Farmers are closing down or moving on to different pursuits; buyers are canceling cont...
The news that Freeport School District has added full-time mental health counseling services to its stable of student services is a very good thing.
Earlier this month s...
Helping students pay for higher education is big business in this country, but Pennsylvania takes the issue of student debt to new heights — or new depths, depending on ...
The news comes as a jolt.
Butler’s YWCA Personal Care Residence home is closing on Sept. 24, forcing the county Area Agency on Aging to scramble to find housing for its ...
County commissioners from across the state got together last week in Gettysburg for the annual conference and trade show of the County Commissioners Association of Penns...
