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...
Anyone who's paid even a little bit of attention to Pennsylvania state government in the past five years or so knows that Harrisburg is dysfunctional and that many state...
When the new Butler County Prison opened last year, the county got rid of a longtime problem — the shortage of space to house its growing prisoner population.
With the o...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates deserves credit for a speech he made earlier this month suggesting that the United States needs to spend less money when it comes to the P...
The new Merchant Marines Memorial in Butler's Diamond Park, which is scheduled to be dedicated at 11:30 a.m. May 28, was put in place during the past week and is an exce...
Butler School District taxpayers have a couple of reasonable questions to ask school board members and the administration. If the district can't now balance its budget f...
