QUESTION: I have a home, built about 1950, that has tin siding. Can or should this siding be repainted (and how?), or is it best to remove it and install new siding, suc...
Heritage Festival makes return here in August
The second Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival is slated for Aug. 10-12 in Butler and at the Big Butler Fairgrounds in Franklin To...
Market still growing
After gliding through the treetops on a cable at a park in the Adirondacks, Holly Swanson wondered if she could replicate the fun in her parents' bac...
LOS ANGELES — We pushed off from the Bicycle District in East Hollywood, a mob of two-wheelers that for a few hours on a recent Sunday ruled a 7-mile stretch of car-free...
The annual can spruce up any landscape
The lemon beebalm or purple horsemint has simply been incredible this spring and is continuing to show despite some record heat for...
Here are some of the scheduled musical, theatrical and art events this summer in the Butler County region.
Music
The Butler County Symphony Association has announced its...
I was born in 1919 on a large farm in Portersville.
I was No. 8 in a family of 12 children.
My mother, the late Susan Shidemantle, was a wonderful cook.
She baked bucket...
Nothing tastes as good as a home-cooked meal made by Mom. For many mothers, it’s second nature.
Even though many of the best recipes are never written down, this Mother’...
Family adopts sons with Down syndrome
CENTER TWP — For Lisa Brown, this Mother's Day is going to be a bigger celebration than normal.
Nearly a year ago, Brown and her hus...
SUMMIT TWP — Like an adept one-woman band, Elizabeth Wagner manages to multitask in near superhuman ways.
Elizabeth and her husband, Mark Wagner, welcomed their fourth ...
