The latest financial estimates tied to the Butler School District’s proposed closing of the Center Avenue Elementary School dictate a rethinking over what at least some ...
Another accident has occurred at the intersection of Routes 68 and 268 near the Butler-Armstrong County line in northeastern Butler County.
This one claimed the life of ...
Despite his claims to the contrary, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is a perverted sociopath and deserves the 30- to 60-year prison sentence he...
For all the recent hoopla over voter ID laws, a bigger threat to the integrity of elections is being ignored — absentee ballots and mail-in voting.
In Pennsylvania, as i...
With a possible teachers strike looming without a new contract, the Mars School Board and Mars Area Education Association will return to the bargaining table on Wednesda...
During last week’s presidential debate, there was a question on the role, and by implication, the size, of the federal government. While neither candidate directly addre...
Schools are a place for learning, not for fighting and temper tantrums.
But as an article in Tuesday's Butler Eagle reported, there is growing concern about student cond...
Little problems ignored often evolve into big problems.
That’s the case with debris-strewn properties, junk cars, dilapidated buildings and disregard for animal-control ...
Two tax-abatement ideas are being floated on how to make Butler’s business privilege tax more friendly to new enterprises.
For the financially strapped city, the idea ta...
Transportation funding in Pennsylvania is slipping just when it should be increasing — and nobody in Harrisburg is doing more than talking about it.
As reported in a fro...
