The initiative to offer stipends to student teachers that launched earlier this month is a good first step but needs to be expanded so it can help address the state’s tea...
It’s election day once again. If you haven’t made a plan to get to the polls, there’s no time like the present.
Registered voters can cast a ballot at their assigned prec...
A resolution supporting Butler native Marc Fogel, who has been detained in Russia for nearly three years, has advanced in the Senate, and we hope it’s the first step towa...
We want to hear your voice. What do you enjoy reading in the Butler Eagle? What would you like to see more of, and what would you rather we covered less often or didn’t c...
Legislation banning the use of hand-held devices while driving has churned its way through the Pennsylvania General Assembly and soon will find its way to Gov. Josh Shapi...
As a life skills teacher, Jordyn Wyllie understands how important it is for students to be independent and able to do things for themselves.
As we learned in the Wednesda...
April is National Donate Life Month, a good time for a reminder that you have the ability to save someone’s life as an organ donor.
Last week, Eagle staff reporter Willia...
A recent project paired Slippery Rock University students with older adults at a Butler Township retirement community.
The Legacy Project tasked the students, who are st...
A bill passed by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday, April 10, is a good first step toward ensuring AI isn’t used to deceive consumers.
House Bill 159...
The teaching profession isn’t glamorous. The oft-ballyhooed summer breaks can be filled with lesson plan creation and continuing education. Students and their smartphones...
It was awe-some.
Millions of American’s watched Monday’s total eclipse, a rare astronomical event that won’t return until 2044.
We stood shoulder to shoulder with family,...
The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania is helping set local children up for success.
On Tuesday, April 9, a group of volunteers and staff from the United Way read to...
The pathway to recovery is not a straight line. Sometimes it’s a slow, uncomfortable walk with friends, sometimes it’s a dark, bumpy tunnel, sometimes it’s clear skies th...
Many amazing articles have appeared in the pages of the Butler Eagle over the past several weeks, as the editorial staff has embarked on a peek behind the curtain regardi...
Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works, and by extension, the entire region, got some good news this week when the U.S. Department of Energy announced its revised efficiency stand...
Who doesn’t love a festival? And when you can take something as labor intensive as a stream bank stabilization upkeep project and turn it into a good time, that is someth...
Because the presidential nomination for both the Republican and Democratic parties appear to be sewn up, it might not seem worth voting in Pennsylvania’s primary election...
Of 79 fatalities related to flooding in 2023 throughout the United States, 42 happened to those who were driving, according to the National Weather Service.
In recent yea...
There are 8 billion people on this planet. About 350 million of them are Americans. And about 24 Americans are being held in Russian prisons.
And one of them is from But...
In the Friday, March 29, edition of the Butler Eagle, we learned about the preparations some clergy are making for Easter, especially the color of the vestments Lutheran ...
Unless you’re one of the 1.48 million people living in poverty in Pennsylvania, it’s difficult to know what it means to live below the poverty line.
Of that number from t...
The traffic situation in Cranberry Township has changed tremendously over the last two decades, but there has been a constant: the goal of making sure people can get wher...
It’s one thing to know about something. It’s another to experience it.
Warden Beau Sneddon recently went through a reentry simulation — a training that put him in the sh...
A tributary stabilization stream bank restoration doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, but that project, which kicked off Thursday in Cranberry Township, is part of an ...
County residents have a chance next week to show how important industry is to the area.
In the Friday, March 22, edition of the Butler Eagle, we learned about a town hall...
An article in the Friday, March 21, edition of the Butler Eagle showed why food banks are so important, especially in areas where there are few food shopping options.
Fiv...
Mary Jean Montag made quite an impression at St. Luke Lutheran Church & School in Jefferson Township.
Her work — which includes teaching at the school from 1956 to 2001 a...
Nearly 40 years ago, a metal eagle was hoisted to the top of the Wings of Peace monument, a stone veterans monument, by members of the Penn Township Veterans Association....
Veterans have already proven their courage and dedication with their service, so it’s important we all do everything we can to make it easy for them to seek the care they...
Is there such a thing as too many community centers?
Are there ever too many options for places to hold a wedding, a meeting, a fundraiser?
A historic building in a histo...
