A man responsible for testing and calibrating speedometers on state police cars at the Butler barracks was set to retire after 38 years performing those duties on Sept. 2...
Charter members of the Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Company would be honored at a ceremony celebrating 40 years since the department’s founding, which included afternoon and ...
Main Street merchants in Butler displayed fall fashions and other items, and lent storefront space for booths that touted various area benefit organizations; tickets to c...
The start of a new academic year at Butler County Community College wasn’t just marked by students’ return to campus, but a candlelighting ceremony officially inducting n...
Sandra Grace Smith, Sharon Martha Smith and Susan Ann Smith entered the world in that order and just several minutes from one another, and each would go home in that orde...
The Butler Area League of Women Voters commemorated the 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage on Aug. 25, 1970.
Mrs. Robert L. Eisler, president of the league, wore 1920s ...
Three Janes and a Tom came from Biggleswade, England, to Butler County in August, 1970, on a sightseeing trip sponsored by the Pittsburgh Rotary District 730 and three Sl...
Tony Fratto set a weightlifting record in 1970 when he hoisted 560 pounds in the squat position and 1,560 pounds in total weight at a national competition in Denver.
The ...
A Union High School student narrowly won a state golf championship at Krendale Golf Course by shooting two eagles — one on the 18th hole — earning the Butler Elks its fir...
The U.S. Navy Band drew the largest crowd at the seventh annual Butler County Music and Arts Festival on July 19, 1970, when more than 15,000 people traveled to Armco Par...
