On March 28, 2012, more than 240 student science projects were displayed at Mars Area Elementary School, some by individuals and some by groups of students who worked tog...
More than 2,500 Easter revelers kicked off their 2008 holiday weekend March 21 at Victory Family Church's “Eggstravaganza.”
While thousands of plastic Easter eggs made a ...
Students at Slippery Rock University competed in a scavenger hunt March 14, 2005, for a chance to throw a pie in the face of a math professor at the school.
The deadline ...
Joe Wos, a cartoonist and storyteller from the ToonSeum, tells a story to students at Mars Primary Center on Friday, March 6, 2009.
Wos’ appearance was one of the activi...
One puff and four candles went out.
Four leap year lassies born Feb. 29, 1968, at Butler County Memorial Hospital, shared a "first birthday" cake on leap day afternoon a...
The Antique Motor Coach Association of Pittsburgh, the group responsible for restoring the Harmony Short Line Bus 775, found a new home for its motor coach fleet in Porte...
The Four Points by Sheraton Pittsburgh North was lined with what was possibly miles of yarn on Valentine’s Day weekend in 2010, for the sixth annual Pittsburgh Knit and C...
Dawna “Mitzi” Rice attended Zelienople Grade School as a child, where a classmate told her about a pen pal project in which she and an Australian sixth-grader would write...
On Feb. 11, 2012, amid temperatures in the 20s, high winds and heavy snowfall, people jumped into icy Lake Arthur wearing everything from swimsuits to a tuxedo T-shirt.
“...
The Butler Junior Chamber of Commerce had its annual Distinguished Service Award banquet scheduled Feb. 7, 1970.
James E. Jones was announced as winner of the Junior Outs...
Despite a temperature forecast that had the thermometer dropping to single digits by Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, coats, hats, gloves and scarves were going unused in a storag...
Mark Rikal presented a banner to the Navy Mothers Club, Victor Thomas Rikal Senior Post 981 of Butler, in honor of his brother, who went down at sea in June 1969.
Additio...
A fire burned down a cinder block barn on Jan. 5, 1970, after pigs in a barn on Butler Road knocked an electric heating lamp onto some straw.
The Vadnal farm lost 102 pig...
Seneca Valley High School’s junior varsity team stayed undefeated in its 1970 season when the boys beat Butler High School junior varsity squad 53-45 in the final two min...
William McDanald enlisted with the Pennsylvania state police in 1907, when Troop D was stationed in Punxsutawney, and he worked as a state trooper until he was discharged...
Women of St. Michael’s Guild at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church in Butler donated the first $200 to the “DeAngelo Fund.” The group created the fund to help the DeAngelo...
“Let’s Serve Cheese” was the title of the first-place winners at the future homemakers competition in December 1970, and it was created by the Future Homemakers at Knoch ...
Culinary students at Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School learned how to prepare a feast for many people in November 2016 by cooking up Thanksgiving foods for a...
The Butler Junior Trojanettes had a banquet Nov. 14, 1970 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their founding, which was attended by present and former members of the g...
Butler High School seniors Rick Elias and Dennis Naidus received top awards at a cross country banquet on Nov. 7, 1971.
Rick received the Dennis Coyle Award, which is giv...
Butler firefighters were hard pressed for about 20 minutes as a house on Coal Street burned on Nov. 2, 1971, but they eventually got the blaze under control.
Still, the u...
A total of 270 youngsters attended a Halloween party put on by the Butler YMCA on Oct. 26, 1971.
While the annual Butler YMCA Cadet and Prep Halloween party garnered hund...
The Saxonburg Fire Hall would become a ballroom Oct. 22, 1971, but instead of traditional ballroom dancing, guests would instead partake in round and square dances.
The P...
Members of the Meridian Women’s Club were hard at work making handmade prizes for the group’s annual card party in October 1971.
Prizes at the annual card party included ...
Firefighters got some backup in promoting fire safety in early October 1971.
Smokey Bear was making his way across Butler County for Fire Prevention Month, and stopped at...
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...