A small flash, a deafening bang, and when the thick brown smoke cleared all that remained of the former Foxburg bridge was a stone pier and a few mangled trusses poking u...
Theresa Bain lived four houses away from the Mercer Road Volunteer Fire Department when she joined the department in 1969, which gave her quick access to the 750-gallon p...
The General State Authority was planning six building projects for Butler County in July 1970, including a new western area warehouse for state police and a student cente...
Many of the classic cars of today were just cars in the 1970s, so back then, many of the vehicles populating antique car shows dated back to the 1920s and 1930s.
The Butl...
About 2,500 workers of the United Steelworkers Local 1415 began a strike on June 15, 1970, when Pullman-Standard moved the day it issued paychecks to its workers from Thu...
A storm blew through Butler County on June 18, 1970, causing extensive damage throughout the northern part of the county, especially in the Chicora area.
High-velocity wi...
Twins Rich and Ron Saul were preparing to enter the professional football league in June 1970, but not before making a visit to their high school alma mater.
Rich Saul wa...
Pillow Street in Butler would flood with runoff from New Castle Road after every heavy rain, at least in 1970.
Residents of the area said in June 1970, that flooding on t...
George Everett was relatively unknown when he took over as Butler Senior High School’s varsity basketball coach in June 1970, but he came away from his first afternoon of...
Occasional raindrops fell on the large crowd of spectators watching the Memorial Day parade on May 30, 1968, but the weather was nothing a little umbrella couldn’t stop.
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