Chicora first-graders perform “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” during Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Santa greets the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, was the first day for the Butler Lions Club Christmas tree sale at Trinity Lutheran Church, 120 Sunset Drive, in Center Township. Manning the Christmas tree stand in the church's picnic shelter were, from left, Lions Club members Doug Hayes, Barry Fleckner, Randy Pilarcik, president John Hertzog, Bob Shipkowski and Eric Cranmer. Eric Freehling/Butler Eagle
Middlesex Township officers collected toys for The Lighthouse on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, in the parking lot of Glade Run Presbyterian Church. Assisting with the Stuff the Cruiser event, from left, are Sergeant Randy Davison and his son, Nathan, a member of Troop 58; and officers Christian Renaud and Michael Hartman. Boy Scouts from Troop 58, the Rainmakers, helped with the event. Toys were also collected at area businesses. Donna Sybert/Butler Eagle
Former Butler High School girls and boys basketball coach Joe Lewandowski has returned to Butler County Community College — where he was once a junior college All-American — as interim men’s basketball coach this season. Read the article in the Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, edition of the Butler Eagle. John Enrietto/Butler Eagle
Customers come out of Wunderbar Coffee and Crepes in Harmony on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Elisa Hunter shops for shoes at Eva Bryn Shoetique in Zelienople on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Customers shop at Eva Bryn Shoetique in Zelinople on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Customers shop at Darn Yarn Needles and Thread in Harmony on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Eva Bryn Shoetique owner Kelly Carney helps customers at her shop in Zelienople on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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North Catholic’s Ally Feczko serves the ball to Pope John Paul II in the PIAA 3A volleyball championship game at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg on Nov. 19. After another highly successful campaign, the feared outside hitter, Feczko, and the talented setter, Sydnei Jones, both have been named as the Butler Eagle’s Girls Volleyball co-Players of the Year for the second season in a row. Read the article in the Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, edition of the Butler Eagle. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
North Catholic’s Sydnei Jones sets a spike up against South Fayette in the WPIAL Class 3A girls volleyball championship match at Robert Morris University’s UPMC Events Center earlier this month. After another highly successful campaign, the talented setter, Sydnei Jones, and the feared outside hitter, Ally Feczko, both have been named as the Butler Eagle’s Girls Volleyball co-Players of the Year for the second season in a row. Read the article in the Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, edition of the Butler Eagle.Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Mackenzie Harold, outreach coordinator with the Butler County Historical Society, is with Santa at the Senator Walter Lowrie House in Butler on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. The society will host a cookie walk at the house on Saturday, Dec. 3, with 300 dozen cookies throughout the house. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Crews clean up debris at the scene of a house fire on Unionville Road Saturday afternoon, Nov. 26, 2022. Molly Miller/Butler Eagle
Members of the Butler Lions Club carry a just-purchased Christmas tree to a customer’s vehicle in the parking lot of Trinity Lutheran Church in Center Township on Friday afternoon, Nov. 25, 2022. Eric Freehling/Butler Eagle
Butler Lions Club members help buyers load their Christmas trees into their vehicles Friday afternoon, Nov. 25, 2022, in the parking lot of Trinity Lutheran Church. Eric Freehling/Butler Eagle
Madelynn McDonald, 5, from Chicora, makes a craft at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Brady Hershberger, 6, from Chicora, hits the switch to light the tree at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Radish Dennis Schweinsburg gets his caricature drawn at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Spirit of Community award winner Ron Huff accepts his award at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Maria Enjuto Pena plays the castanets at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Bria Callender sings as children from Chicora United Methodist church sing “Hush! There’s a Baby” at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Santa bumps the Rudolph nose to light it up on Wyatt Prejsnar, 6, from Butler, during Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Reilly Martin sings “White Christmas” at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
The Butler Transit Authority Santa bus made its way down Main Street during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Big Butler Fair queen winners wave to the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Candy is tossed out during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Holly Gitzenis is pushed by her sister as they march with Peoples Gas during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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The Butler High School marching band performs during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
It wouldn’t be Christmas without beloved characters from “A Christmas Story” during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Sirkus Days performer Josh Medina spits fire during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
The Butler High School marching band performs during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Santa arrives during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Sirkus Days performer Josh Medina spits fire during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Santa greets children in the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Mrs. Claus waves to the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
The Grinch gives Karson Weisenstein a high-five before the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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Chicora first-graders perform “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” during Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Santa greets the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, was the first day for the Butler Lions Club Christmas tree sale at Trinity Lutheran Church, 120 Sunset Drive, in Center Township. Manning the Christmas tree stand in the church's picnic shelter were, from left, Lions Club members Doug Hayes, Barry Fleckner, Randy Pilarcik, president John Hertzog, Bob Shipkowski and Eric Cranmer. Eric Freehling/Butler Eagle
Middlesex Township officers collected toys for The Lighthouse on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, in the parking lot of Glade Run Presbyterian Church. Assisting with the Stuff the Cruiser event, from left, are Sergeant Randy Davison and his son, Nathan, a member of Troop 58; and officers Christian Renaud and Michael Hartman. Boy Scouts from Troop 58, the Rainmakers, helped with the event. Toys were also collected at area businesses. Donna Sybert/Butler Eagle
Former Butler High School girls and boys basketball coach Joe Lewandowski has returned to Butler County Community College — where he was once a junior college All-American — as interim men’s basketball coach this season. Read the article in the Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, edition of the Butler Eagle. John Enrietto/Butler Eagle
Customers come out of Wunderbar Coffee and Crepes in Harmony on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Elisa Hunter shops for shoes at Eva Bryn Shoetique in Zelienople on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Customers shop at Eva Bryn Shoetique in Zelinople on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Customers shop at Darn Yarn Needles and Thread in Harmony on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Eva Bryn Shoetique owner Kelly Carney helps customers at her shop in Zelienople on Small Business Saturday on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
North Catholic’s Ally Feczko serves the ball to Pope John Paul II in the PIAA 3A volleyball championship game at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg on Nov. 19. After another highly successful campaign, the feared outside hitter, Feczko, and the talented setter, Sydnei Jones, both have been named as the Butler Eagle’s Girls Volleyball co-Players of the Year for the second season in a row. Read the article in the Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, edition of the Butler Eagle. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
North Catholic’s Sydnei Jones sets a spike up against South Fayette in the WPIAL Class 3A girls volleyball championship match at Robert Morris University’s UPMC Events Center earlier this month. After another highly successful campaign, the talented setter, Sydnei Jones, and the feared outside hitter, Ally Feczko, both have been named as the Butler Eagle’s Girls Volleyball co-Players of the Year for the second season in a row. Read the article in the Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, edition of the Butler Eagle.Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Mackenzie Harold, outreach coordinator with the Butler County Historical Society, is with Santa at the Senator Walter Lowrie House in Butler on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. The society will host a cookie walk at the house on Saturday, Dec. 3, with 300 dozen cookies throughout the house. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle
Crews clean up debris at the scene of a house fire on Unionville Road Saturday afternoon, Nov. 26, 2022. Molly Miller/Butler Eagle
Members of the Butler Lions Club carry a just-purchased Christmas tree to a customer’s vehicle in the parking lot of Trinity Lutheran Church in Center Township on Friday afternoon, Nov. 25, 2022. Eric Freehling/Butler Eagle
Butler Lions Club members help buyers load their Christmas trees into their vehicles Friday afternoon, Nov. 25, 2022, in the parking lot of Trinity Lutheran Church. Eric Freehling/Butler Eagle
Madelynn McDonald, 5, from Chicora, makes a craft at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Brady Hershberger, 6, from Chicora, hits the switch to light the tree at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Radish Dennis Schweinsburg gets his caricature drawn at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Spirit of Community award winner Ron Huff accepts his award at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Maria Enjuto Pena plays the castanets at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Bria Callender sings as children from Chicora United Methodist church sing “Hush! There’s a Baby” at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Santa bumps the Rudolph nose to light it up on Wyatt Prejsnar, 6, from Butler, during Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Reilly Martin sings “White Christmas” at Chicora Light-Up Night at the Chicora Volunteer Fire Department on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
The Butler Transit Authority Santa bus made its way down Main Street during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Big Butler Fair queen winners wave to the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Candy is tossed out during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Holly Gitzenis is pushed by her sister as they march with Peoples Gas during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
The Butler High School marching band performs during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
It wouldn’t be Christmas without beloved characters from “A Christmas Story” during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Sirkus Days performer Josh Medina spits fire during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
The Butler High School marching band performs during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Santa arrives during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Sirkus Days performer Josh Medina spits fire during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Santa greets children in the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
Mrs. Claus waves to the crowd during the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Justin Guido
The Grinch gives Karson Weisenstein a high-five before the Spirit of Christmas Parade in downtown Butler on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
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