Reading the June 4 front-page article "S. Butler (teachers contract) agreement announced," one reader responded, "Why are they hiding the details from the taxpayers unti...
The uneasiness of Herman residents over the not-too-distant arrival of sanitary sewer service to their community is understandable. Being included in the service will me...
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an ecological disaster, but in some ways it is similar to the recent financial disaster caused by Wall Street's biggest banks and ...
Now that the congregation of the McKee Chapel United Methodist Church has dedicated its newly rebuilt church along Fenelton Road, it's a good time to acknowledge the har...
An Associated Press article this week reporting that Pennsylvania general fund revenue collections for May came in nearly $125 million below projections provided the lat...
Across the country, May and June is the time for high school graduations. This year in Butler County, the coming days and weeks will be a time to acknowledge and praise ...
Since last fall, the South Butler School District, whose teachers have been working under terms of a contract that expired on June 30, 2008, has been awaiting a nonbindi...
Now that most Democrats in Congress, and most Americans for that matter, have moved on from health care reform to tackle financial reform and climate change, the message...
Perhaps the $250 reward being offered by Seven Fields Borough for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for a spate of vandalism in that ...
An Associated Press article of March 3 began, "U.S. teachers are more interested in school reform and student achievement than their paychecks, according to a massive ne...