With a quick glance at this photo, you may think it was taken last week when Butler Area School District started its school year. In reality, it was published in the Sept...
More than 140 prospective Butler High School Golden Tornado players were enthusiastic to start the season on Aug. 18, 1967, and attended a preseason workout.
According to...
Main Street looks mighty different for the Butler residents in this photo from September 1968, and it likely looks different for a lot of our readers, too.
Riders in thi...
Budding traditions often switch things up, and the humble beginnings of the Butler Farm Show are no exception.
This photo from the Aug. 18, 1966, edition of the Butler Ea...
There was more than just broncos bucking at the North Washington Rodeo in 1967.
According to the Aug. 15, 1967, edition of the Butler Eagle, the rodeo, which this year st...
Days on the waves of Lake Arthur at Moraine State Park remain a county resident go-to to beat summer heat waves.
In this file photo from June 1971, historic attendance wa...
Back in the summer of ’67... the heat was all over the county, and people sought respite from the rays in similar ways they do today.
This image of Rock Falls Park pool r...
A storm drenched the Butler Farm Show the night of Aug. 6, 1968, damaging some of the facilities and even carrying a tent about 25 feet before it landed on tables.
Despit...
Theater productions in Butler County parks are frequent occurrences nowadays, but this promotional photo for Butler Little Theatre’s 1967 production of Neil Simon’s “Bare...
The “Champion Band” entertained a crowd of youths on July 22, 1968, who gathered at the corner of Monroe and East Locust streets for St. Paul’s Neighborhood Night.
Butler...
On the same day the crew of the Apollo 15 dealt with broken glass and a brief voltage drop on their journey to the Moon, the crew of the Butler Fair buggies were having a...
The 1979 Oil Crisis struck Butler County, when the Iranian Revolution caused gas prices to surge.
Some local gas stations came up with special offers to entice drivers t...
These three women were found by a Butler Eagle photographer “driving off the 11th tee” at the ARMCO Country Club in Slippery Rock in fall of 1971. The golfers, from left ...
“Mrs. John P. Graham,” or Marian Graham, was crowned Mother of the Year on May 8, 1970 at the Elks Auxiliary meeting and was so recognized in the following day’s edition ...
On May 21, 1969, Eric Foster, left, was the first child to have their bicycle inspected by Butler police chief Samuel Lasky, right, for the year’s annual program.
The bic...
This photograph from the Aug. 31, 1970, edition of the Butler Eagle depicts Lt. Newton Robbins of the Butler state police barracks after the interception of several marij...
Six people died in Butler County 36 years ago Monday when a tornado touched down in the county about 8:30 p.m. May 31, 1985. It cut a 27-mile swath of destruction and ca...
Here is an excerpt from the Dec. 27,1929, edition of the Butler Eagle. Online subscribers will be able to read what was on Page 1 of that edition.
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Two Men and Wom...
SENECA BENEFIT RAISES $6,719 — The Children’s Hospital benefit at Seneca Valley Junior High lasted just under a month and raised $6,719 in December 1981. Putting the fin...
CHRISTMAS DONATION — Richard Heckard, road captain of the Sunset Riders Motorcycle Club of Butler, and Shirley Lawson, purchasing agent for the club, give gifts collecte...
LIVE NATIVITY — To recreate the “old-time feeling of Christmas,” Leisure Lawn and Garden and Craft Supplies in Cranberry Township featured a live Nativity scene with Chr...
CORN HUSK DOLLS — Julie Fennel 10, left, and Pam Bonin, 10, students at Penn Township Elementary School, work on corn husk dolls for their part of the school’s Spirit of...
