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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
Seneca Valley Senior High School student Jo Fernandez-Jenkins placed 2nd out of 73 entries from Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District in the 2024 Congressional Art C...
May 07, 2024 Arts & Entertainment
PENN TWP — The 25 veterans who live at Colonial Gardens will have an upgraded outdoor seating area this spring, summer and fall, thanks to a group of patriotic folks who ...
May 07, 2024 Community
MARS — Borough council voted to put a former church building at 524 Pittsburgh St. up for sale during its meeting Monday, May 6. The borough spent years trying to find a ...
May 06, 2024 Religion
As the school year winds down, prom season is in full swing. ...
May 06, 2024 Community
CONNOQUENESSING TWP — The township is holding a “Keep Conno Clean” trash pickup event on Saturday, May 18 from 8 to 10 a.m., starting from the Ritenour building on Kriess...
May 06, 2024 Community
Mary Ann (O’Grady) Rieger began thinking about the marketing of Elf on the Shelf and the toy’s requirement for children to mind their behavior until Santa Claus makes his...
May 06, 2024 Community
The 2024 Moniteau Jr./Sr. High School has announced their 2024 prom court. Court members are, front row, from left, Isabella Hernendez, Sydney Bayless, Lucy Hartle, Kenda...
May 06, 2024 Community
The TOPS Club of Cabot will meet from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. each Thursday at Concordia Visiting Nurses, 613 N. Pike Road, Cabot. TOPS is an acronym for Take Off Pounds Sensib...
May 06, 2024 Community
History will come alive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 11 at Echoes of the Past at the Armstrong County Historical Museum, 300 N. McKean St., Kittanning. Costumed military pe...
May 06, 2024 Community
The Caring for the Caregiver support group for those with a family member or friend living with dementia will meet from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the South Butler C...
May 06, 2024 Community
James Blauser and Brianna Schmidt were crowned king and queen Saturday, April 27, at the Allegheny/Clarion Valley Jr./Sr. High School Prom. The event was held at Wolf’s D...
May 06, 2024 Community
The 35 photos submitted for the Shutterbug Showdown photo competition at the Zelienople Area Public Library are available for public view at the library during regular ho...
May 04, 2024 Community
People interested in learning fun and nutritious entertaining ideas are invited to attend “Let’s Cook Charcuterie Boards” from noon to 1 p.m. May 14 at the Penn State Ext...
May 04, 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 04, 2024 Senior
SUMMIT TWP — John Hasychak suspects his cherished late friend had a hand in a delightful discovery in the lineage of a favorite co-worker. Hasychak explained that as a yo...
May 04, 2024 Community
Tuesday’s Backyard Gardening workshop at the South Butler Community Library will see a Penn State Master Gardener demonstrating how to identify the common trees of Wester...
May 04, 2024 Community
The TOPS Club of Butler 1105 will meet from 10:30 a.m. to noon each Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 120 Sunset Drive, Butler. TOPS is an acronym for Take Off Pounds Se...
May 04, 2024 Community
Mikayla Tillery, a 2020 Seneca Valley Senior High School graduate, has been named a recipient of the 2024 Truman Scholarship for her commitment to housing and energy just...
May 04, 2024 Community
UMC removes anti-LGBTQ language
UMC removes anti-LGBTQ language
May 03, 2024 Religion
ADAMS TWP — The building at 145 Grand Ave. in Mars currently houses a NexTier Bank branch. In a few years, that address may be the new home of the Mars Area Public Librar...
May 02, 2024 Government
In its most recent church bulletin, St. John Lutheran Church in Mars warned its parishioners to steer clear of a phone scam intended to impersonate its pastor. As describ...
May 01, 2024 Religion
CHICORA — You may have seen signs on neighbors’ lawns which read “WATCH FOR MOTORCYCLES.” Those are distributed by ABATE, the Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education, a...
May 01, 2024 Community
JEFFERSON TWP — A handful of residents at the large Concordia Lutheran Ministries campus on Marwood Road can be seen waddling around the property this time of year carryi...
May 01, 2024 Community
The Lutheran SeniorLife Passavant Community, located on Burgess Drive in Zelienople, is hosting a Vitalant blood drive on Friday, June 7 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The blood ...
May 01, 2024 Community
JEFFERSON TWP — The effort to protect ducks and their babies at the Concordia Lutheran Ministries campus on Marwood Road doesn’t end with the project to cover the storm d...
May 01, 2024 Community
SLIPPERY ROCK — A collaboration between young and old, and all ages in between, will benefit both the university students who provided services and the three organization...
April 30, 2024 Community
The 2023-24 Slippery Rock Area High Prom Court has been announced. Prom queen candidates are Meghan Bencic, Lillian Swigart, Kaitlyn Parson, Libby Campbell and Allie Pop...
April 29, 2024 Community
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