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Butler is full of history, and people interested in learning more about the city’s storied past will get the chance to do so on a walking tour through town. The Historic ...
May 16, 2024 Community
The fifth annual Engines at the Museum event at the Armstrong County Historical Museum in Kittanning will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 2. The museum will dem...
May 15, 2024 Arts & Entertainment
FRANKLIN TWP — There was much for the Butler County Family YMCA to celebrate during it’s annual meeting on Tuesday, May 14. Last year the nonprofit saw a net revenue of $...
May 14, 2024 Local News
As the school year winds down, prom season is in full swing. A few submissions from recent proms in Butler County are featured below. ...
May 14, 2024 Community
The Butler County Genealogical Society will host the webinar “Using U.S. Church Records as a Brick Wall Strategy” at 6:15 p.m. May 21 in the reading room at the Butler Ar...
May 14, 2024 Community
JACKSON TWP — When people think of state grants, small-business solutions, producing songs, and authors, they don’t normally think of middle school students. At the begin...
May 14, 2024 Community
The Rotary Club of Zelienople has opened registration to those who would like to appear in the annual Fourth of July Parade. Rotary members are hoping to add more musical...
May 14, 2024 Community
The Portersville Bible Church Cemetery Association will have its annual meeting at 7 p.m. May 20 at the church at 156 E. Portersville Road, Portersville. All lot owners a...
May 14, 2024 Community
Good Samaritan Hospice will hold a free Youth Bereavement Care event from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 8 at its location at 116 Browns Hill Road, Valencia. The program, “Grou...
May 13, 2024 Community
BUTLER TWP — In 2020, Violet Dolmayer’s daughter wondered aloud what she would do with the large collection of clothing her toddler had outgrown. “She said ‘I wish I coul...
May 13, 2024 Community
The Intermediate League of Butler will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 20, at Christ Community Church, 205 N. Duffy Road, Butler. Members will celebrate the close of the cl...
May 13, 2024 Community
The Portersville Bible Church Cemetery Association will have its annual meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, May 20, at the church at 156 E. Portersville Road, Portersville. All lot...
May 11, 2024 Community
DALLAS — A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called super E...
May 11, 2024 Community
The TOPS Club of Cabot 1674 will meet from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. each Thursday at Concordia Visiting Nurses, 613 North Pike Road, Cabot. TOPS is an acronym for Take Off Pound...
May 11, 2024 Community
Paris Brown, of Butler, recently received a $1,500 scholarship from Pittsburgh Alumnae Panhellenic, the alumnae chapter of the National Panhellenic Conference, which is c...
May 11, 2024 Community
BUTLER TWP — Although Jo Renée (Tackett) Motko only spent three months with her Indian family as a 16-year-old AFS exchange student, the dream she realized of reuniting w...
May 11, 2024 Community
A new display is available for public viewing at the Maridon Museum, 322 N. McKean St., Butler. The museum, which displays the voluminous art collection of the late Mary ...
May 11, 2024 Community
The 2024 Butler Senior High School prom king and queen were crowned May 3 at Butler County Community College. Leah Deal and Carson Bish were named Butler high school roya...
May 11, 2024 Community
WASHINGTON — Liam and Olivia have for a fifth year together topped the list of baby names for brand new boys and girls born in the U.S. in 2023. And Mateo joins the top 1...
May 11, 2024 Community
Senior centers at Butler, Chicora, Cranberry Township, Evans City, Mars, Slippery Rock, Mount Chestnut and Winfield Township will serve the following menus this week. Lun...
May 11, 2024 Senior
The Pennsylvania Resources Council is asking amateur photographers to help raise awareness about the state’s littering problem by entering the annual Gene Capaldi Lens on...
May 11, 2024 Community
The Maridon Museum will host the Pittsburgh chapter of Ikebana International for an introductory class in a unique method of Japanese flower arrangement. The class will b...
May 11, 2024 Community
First United Methodist Church will host its annual rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 17, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Route 8 Campus, which ...
May 11, 2024 Community
The musical group Glory Way will present a free concert at 2 p.m. May 18 at Faith United Presbyterian Church, 1329 N. Main St. Extension, Butler. The Ohio-based Christian...
May 11, 2024 Community
Seneca Valley seniors will follow the yellow brick road to the 2024 prom Saturday, May 11, at Stage AE in Pittsburgh, where the theme will be “The Wizard of Oz.” Prom cou...
May 10, 2024 Community
This Saturday, May 11, the Butler Farm Show grounds will welcome children from around Butler County for the 24th annual Kids Day America event. Although Kids Day America ...
May 10, 2024 Community
On Saturday, May 11, the public can visit Mars to experience the thrill of controlling a rover on the surface of Mars. The Mars Robotics Association is hosting an event w...
May 09, 2024 Community
The Backyard Gardening series at the South Butler Community Library will continue at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, with a workshop on straw bale gardening. Penn State Master...
May 08, 2024 Community
Chemotherapy-induced hair loss is the final indignity of a cancer diagnosis for many women, but a Zelienople woman managed to hang onto her hair throughout and after her ...
May 08, 2024 Community
The annual Mancini Award nominees have been released, and Butler County students dominate the list. The award program, which is named for composer, conductor, arranger an...
May 07, 2024 Community
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