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Evans City PumpkinFest rings in autumn with themed vendors, activities
EVANS CITY — Despite some rain, the two days of the fifth annual Evans City PumpkinFest were filled with families and vendors ringing in autumn’s arrival. The f...
Veterans Overwatch Foundation expands transitional housing services with new outreach facility
Joe Maguire saw the closing of Robin’s Home’s resource center last August as the loss of an essential service that many people relied on. So, he did something a...
Zelienople family celebrates great-grandmother’s 100th birthday
ZELIENOPLE — Beatrice Kelly’s backyard was full of cheerful chatter, happiness and some accidentally popped balloons as her family and neighbors gathered to cel...
PA football Week 4 final scores: Highlights, recaps from Butler, Freeport at North Catholic, Karns City, more
Things are about to get interesting. We’re fully into region, conference and section play across Western Pennsylvania high school football. And there are some b...
Evans City PumpkinFest rings in autumn with themed vendors, activities
Evans City PumpkinFest...
Butler historical society’s walking tour commemorates decade of murals celebrati...
Butler historical soci...
Veterans Overwatch Foundation expands transitional housing services with new out...
Veterans Overwatch Fou...
Zelienople family celebrates great-grandmother’s 100th birthday
Zelienople family cele...
PA football Week 4 final scores: Highlights, recaps from Butler, Freeport at Nor...
PA football Week 4 fin...
Top Headlines
Construction of a million square-foot data center with a wastewater treatment facility, power station and an office building is being proposed on two lots totaling 274 ac...
September 19, 2026 Local News
Grove City Area Historical Society & Museum is hosting one additional speaker series event in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Grove City College, and it recentl...
September 18, 2026 Community
Cranberry Township has submitted an application to bring a scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the township. The Wall that Heals is a replica of the Vietnam...
September 18, 2026 Community
An elderly woman died following a cement truck rollover crash Thursday, Sept. 17, on Mars-Evans City Road, according to Callery Volunteer Fire Company officials. Assista...
September 18, 2026 Local News
SRU Federal Credit Union is now saying its “core systems” are expected to be restored sometime today, Friday, Sept. 18, after a Hardware failure at a data center disrupt...
September 18, 2026 Local News
News
A Concord Township man is accused of sexually assaulting a girl for over two years when she was between the ages of five and seven. Brandon John Lindenberger, 36, was ch...
September 18, 2026 Local News
A Lyndora caregiver is accused of stealing a client’s credit card in Summit Township and charging $3,000 to it, according to state police. Michael Brown, 39, was seen on...
September 18, 2026 Local News
A 64-year-old East Butler man lost more than $42,000 to scammers posing as a WWE wrestler, according to state police in Kittanning. Police said the unidentified person o...
September 18, 2026 Local News
State police Troop T and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission are holding a car seat safety event from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, at the Oakmont Plum Service Plaza, mi...
September 18, 2026 Local News
A man suffered scrapes and pain to his hand and hip from being struck by a vehicle while in a crosswalk in the Walmart parking lot in Butler Township, according to police...
September 18, 2026 Local News
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Community
Robyn DiCola’s job involves talking to people on the phone for three hours Mondays, Wednes...
Today's Verse
Today in History
 
The Saxonburg VFW Post 7376 Auxiliary is accepting requests for fall 2026 veteran and serv...
September 17, 2026
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges an...
September 17, 2026
The following area residents were named to the dean’s list at their respective colleges an...
September 17, 2026
There will be a spaghetti meatball benefit dinner, 50/50 and Chinese auction on Oct. 3 fro...
September 17, 2026
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Sports
PITTSBURGH — Rafael Flores Jr. hit the go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning to h...
 
Slippery Rock football outscored Iroquois 42-0 in the second and third quarters as the Roc...
September 20, 2026
For the past two weeks, a certain area of the lake had been producing fish — mostly crappi...
September 20, 2026
Marauders held to 19 rushing yards Slippery Rock University’s offense has been unstoppable...
September 19, 2026
The Butler Eagle’s photo team was four PIAA football games Friday night: Freeport at North...
September 19, 2026
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Editorial
I read the article about Callen Potts (“Family shaken by accusatory note on car,” Aug. 26, Page 1) who has cerebral palsy, and instantly knew I had to...
September 19, 2026 Letters to the Editor
I registered to vote in Butler County in 1972, at 18, presenting my driver’s license to prove my identity. Nobody blinked when I registered as an Inde...
September 18, 2026 Letters to the Editor
September 18, 2026 Cartoons
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday deserves the thanks of Butler County residents for his actions to keep Butler Memorial Hospital and the four...
September 18, 2026 Our Opinion
As Pennsylvania looks to expand its technology infrastructure, data centers are becoming part of the conversation about economic development, electric...
September 18, 2026 Other Voices
Business
Texture is having a crunchy, gooey moment in the food and beverage industry. For many people, the way a menu item or packaged snack feels in the mout...
September 19, 2026 Business
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway in the next step of the transition at the top of the $1 trillion congl...
September 18, 2026 Business
Chrysler is recalling more than 200,000 Jeeps of various models due to potential tire pressure monitoring system failure, according to the National Hi...
September 17, 2026 Business
Armco Credit Union is warning customers of scammers impersonating its agents and attempting to steal customers’ information. Scammers are using the c...
September 17, 2026 Business
OpenAI has disclosed six reports of “unexpected or concerning” behavior in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasin...
September 17, 2026 Business
Weekend Entertainment
The Knights of Columbus Butler Council 866 is hosting its second annual four-person scramble charity golf tournament on Saturday, Sept. 26. The event begins at 8 a.m. at ...
September 16, 2026 Weekend Entertainment
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Arts & Entertainment
BROOKFIELD, Conn. — Dolly Parton’s megawatt smile and big wavy locks are gracing fields across the U.S. and Canada this fall. Twenty farms have carved out large corn maz...
September 19, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK — Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who crafted the music for “Spring Awakening,” has died. He was 56. Sheik died Thursday night, acc...
September 18, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
In April 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order banning the hoarding of gold and requiring Americans to deliver excess quantities to a Federal Re...
September 18, 2026 Reviews
“I only use guns in video games,” says Bryan (Austin Abrams), our frustrated protagonist, trying to piece together a machine gun while his impatient companion urges him t...
September 18, 2026 Reviews
NEW YORK — Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author and essayist renowned for her poetic explorations of nature, love, spirituality and the art of writing in the ...
September 17, 2026 Arts & Entertainment
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Special Sections
La Roche University Executive Director of Introcaso Center for Lifelong Learning Jennifer Engel said she remembers when a woman, grieving her late husband, said that the ...
September 16, 2026 Special Sections
It isn’t difficult in the Concordia Haven Retirement Apartments to stumble on a resident involved in some form of community service or charity work. Resident Elizabeth Sp...
September 16, 2026 Special Sections
Students must juggle school, work, extracurricular activities
September 16, 2026 Special Sections
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 mark a moment in American history that typically draws the question, “Where were you?” The Butler Eagle asked that very question on social me...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
At first, the Butler Eagle’s front page on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, seemed like it was going to look very different than how it ended up. Among the stories that seemed de...
September 11, 2026 Special Sections
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Seeking Refuge
Every morning Irena Tkachenko starts her day the same way: by telephoning her relatives and friends in Ukraine to see if they are still OK. Tkachenko,...
February 24, 2023 Local News
Three young Ukrainian families who escaped their war-torn hometown of Kharkov think the American holiday of Thanksgiving is a good time to say they ca...
November 23, 2022 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Huge, steaming pots of homemade food and endless carafes of coffee and tea sustain 11 adults and children seeking refuge at the crowde...
July 16, 2022 Local News
When it comes to helping those in need, Butler County residents have proven their generosity again and again by donating amounts large and small strai...
June 20, 2022 Local News
Two young Ukrainian families are relieved to be watching the deer and chipmunks frolic on their hosts’ Cranberry Township lawn, and not wondering wher...
June 18, 2022 Local News
Digital Divide
HARRISBURG — In the coming years, Pennsylvania will receive more than $1 billion in federal funding to bring high-speed internet access to everyone in...
August 30, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build ...
August 22, 2023 National News
STATE COLLEGE — Before Pennsylvania can spend an almost $1.2 billion windfall of federal funding for high-speed internet, it must figure out how to us...
July 18, 2023 Pennsylvania News
The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is asking for the public’s opinion until Friday, March 10 on two potential action plans for wider int...
February 27, 2023 Local News
CRANBERRY TWP — Pennsylvania is set to get a piece of $42.5 billion in federal money to help expand broadband internet access to underserved areas. On...
February 17, 2023 Business

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