Traffic signals in the shopping areas around Butler that normally are in a blinking mode overnight should not have been allowed to operate that way for the early morning...
Many Butler area residents awoke early today — and maybe even endured a few restless hours before crawling out of bed — to take part in that annual shopping experience c...
What began as a harvest celebration between European settlers and indigenous communities nearly four centuries ago has become our cherished tradition of Thanksgiving. Th...
Thanksgiving was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 with these words:
"It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year . . . to favor ...
Taking a page from the playbook of credit card companies that have been raising interest rates in advance of the implementation of recently passed laws preventing their ...
Taxpayers of Butler County might not have serious complaints about the way outgoing Sheriff Dennis Rickard has operated his department. Unfortunately, any county residen...
One thing was clear at Thursday evening's Jackson Township supervisors meeting: The supervisors failed to provide enough input in the preparation of a proposed 2010 budg...
The contract dispute in the South Butler School District, now in a waiting game while the school board and teachers union await a nonbinding-arbitration decision, has fo...
Last weekend, the New York Times featured a front-page article revealing that more than two dozen lawmakers entered speeches into the Congressional Record that were writ...
As is routine in elections devoted to local offices, many positions are decided by write-in votes because no one officially sought to have his or her name on the ballots...
