Imagine you’re shopping for a new home in Butler and you find a great house for $150,000. You ask a local bank for a 13-year mortgage and offer to put down 20 percent, p...
You can hardly look at a calendar these days without being confronted with a special day, week or month. But this month is an important one: April is National Child Abus...
Three years is a long time to work without a contract. Unless you’re a teacher in Pennsylvania. Then it’s not very surprising at all. Take South Butler School District —...
Done with my shopping at Bon Aire Shopping Plaza, I decided to beat the traffic by using Delwood Drive behind the plaza.
A few minutes later, I found myself confronted b...
Cheer
Assistant Chief Kevin Smith of the South Butler Volunteer Fire Department was doing something nearly every volunteer firefighter has done — enter a burning buildi...
We Americans have developed some odd beliefs and priorities when it comes to raising children, according to one best-selling author and social commentator. But do we put...
Only five months ago and 10 miles west of Butler County, Gov. Tom Wolf toured the site where Royal Dutch Shell will build most significant industrial plant in recent Pen...
The evidence that the commonwealth needs to find an alternative funding source for Pennsylvania State Police is piling up.
The latest addition: revelations that despite ...
For the most part we are all aware that the world in which we live is a broken place. It is populated by broken people, families, communities and countries. Suffering an...
Tears
There’s no making sense of the killing of Bentley Miller. The tragic circumstances surrounding the 4-year-old boy’s death stir our community’s rage. We’re sickene...
