2022 in photos: Scenes from across Butler County
Firefighter Tim Iman of the Butler Bureau of Fire catches his breath in the backyard of the house fire on 3rd Street on Dec. 20. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
Butler County came together in 2022.
During the past year, most community events that had stopped amid the COVID-19 pandemic returned. COVID-19, though periodically rearing its ugly head, has largely faded into the background due to the vaccine and treatment options.
Festivals and fun resumed. The Saxonburg Mingle on Main was held on a monthly schedule. And Friday night football games were as crowded and rowdy as ever before.
And when adversity came along, the community still came together.
As war broke out between Russia and Ukraine overseas, people right here in Butler County came to Ukraine’s aid. Benefits and fundraisers sprung up across the county to support Ukrainians. Two families even fled their country to come to Butler County.
And when a fire destroyed Thompson’s Country Market on Christmas morning, the community was quick to come to the aid of the store owners and tenants who lost everything in the blaze.
Perhaps that same spirit of coming together — in good times and bad — can continue into 2023.
Firefighter Tim Iman of the Butler bureau of fire catches his breath in the backyard of the house fire on 3rd Street on Tuesday evening. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 12/20/22
Rick Dohn, 38, and Maggie Dohn, 39, of Mars, walk through late evening light after casting their ballots at Adams Township Building on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Their son, Slade, 5, accompanied them to the polls. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle 11/08/22
Ben Lane leads the Freeport Yellowjackets onto the field Friday night, Oct. 7, 2022, before their game against East Allegheny. Freeport won 35-13. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
Aubriona Sanders, 6, of Slippery Rock, rides down the slide with Joel Colon at Slippery Rock Community Park in Slippery Rock, Pa. on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. "She loves it," said Colon. "It was a long winter." Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 2/21/22
Smoke rises from the embers of a Christmas Day fire at Thompson's Country Market in West Sunbury on Monday, December 26, 2022. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle 12/26/22
Seventh grader Addison Hartzell plays “The Great Gate of Kyiv” with the Ryan Gloyer Middle School orchestra during a lunchtime fundraiser to benefit Ukraine at the school in Jackson Township on Friday, March 11, 2022. The fundraiser raised money for UNICEF to help children with safe water, nutrition, health care, and other necessities. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 3/11/22
From left, Alina and Nikita Lyman, Domenick Yarmatsevych, Irena Tkachenko, Yegor and Ivan Tkachenko, and Matvey, Anna and Illia Kisel thank the people of Butler County for their donations when they fled their war-torn homeland of Ukraine this summer and arrived in Cranberry Township with one suitcase per family. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 11/21/22Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 11/21/22
Police point guns toward a house from behind an armored vehicle during a standoff in Butler Township on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle
Michael Schindel of Treesdale shows off his vintage car during the Passport to Elegance Party for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport in Penn Twp on Thursday July 21 2022. (Justin Guido/ Special to the Eagle)
Nina Lark, 2, (left) and her sister Lily, 5, both from Saxonburg share a lemonade on a rather humid night at Saxonburg Mingle on Main in Saxonburg on Thursday June 16, 2022.(Justin Guido/ Special to the Eagle)
It was a beautiful backdrop to the Mars/Highlands WPIAL Class 4A Greater Allegheny conference football game at Highlands on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Highlands won 54-22. Justin Guido/Special to the Eagle
On Thursday morning at Birdsfoot Golf Club in Freeport. Michelle Hardt walks down the hills of the golf course while playing the bagpipes to kick off the 6th annual Dreamin to Eagle golf outing. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 9/15/22
Hadley Miller, 7, looks in the mirror at her new face paint done by Hope from Face Painting by Hope at the Sleepy Hollow Festival in Harmony on Saturday morning, Oct. 15, 2022. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
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Firefighter Tim Iman of the Butler bureau of fire catches his breath in the backyard of the house fire on 3rd Street on Tuesday evening. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 12/20/22
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Rick Dohn, 38, and Maggie Dohn, 39, of Mars, walk through late evening light after casting their ballots at Adams Township Building on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Their son, Slade, 5, accompanied them to the polls. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle 11/08/22
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Ben Lane leads the Freeport Yellowjackets onto the field Friday night, Oct. 7, 2022, before their game against East Allegheny. Freeport won 35-13. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
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Aubriona Sanders, 6, of Slippery Rock, rides down the slide with Joel Colon at Slippery Rock Community Park in Slippery Rock, Pa. on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. "She loves it," said Colon. "It was a long winter." Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 2/21/22
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Smoke rises from the embers of a Christmas Day fire at Thompson's Country Market in West Sunbury on Monday, December 26, 2022. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle 12/26/22
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Seventh grader Addison Hartzell plays “The Great Gate of Kyiv” with the Ryan Gloyer Middle School orchestra during a lunchtime fundraiser to benefit Ukraine at the school in Jackson Township on Friday, March 11, 2022. The fundraiser raised money for UNICEF to help children with safe water, nutrition, health care, and other necessities. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle 3/11/22
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From left, Alina and Nikita Lyman, Domenick Yarmatsevych, Irena Tkachenko, Yegor and Ivan Tkachenko, and Matvey, Anna and Illia Kisel thank the people of Butler County for their donations when they fled their war-torn homeland of Ukraine this summer and arrived in Cranberry Township with one suitcase per family. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 11/21/22Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 11/21/22
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Police point guns toward a house from behind an armored vehicle during a standoff in Butler Township on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Joseph Ressler/Butler Eagle
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Michael Schindel of Treesdale shows off his vintage car during the Passport to Elegance Party for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix at Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport in Penn Twp on Thursday July 21 2022. (Justin Guido/ Special to the Eagle)
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Nina Lark, 2, (left) and her sister Lily, 5, both from Saxonburg share a lemonade on a rather humid night at Saxonburg Mingle on Main in Saxonburg on Thursday June 16, 2022.(Justin Guido/ Special to the Eagle)
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It was a beautiful backdrop to the Mars/Highlands WPIAL Class 4A Greater Allegheny conference football game at Highlands on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Highlands won 54-22. Justin Guido/Special to the Eagle
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On Thursday morning at Birdsfoot Golf Club in Freeport. Michelle Hardt walks down the hills of the golf course while playing the bagpipes to kick off the 6th annual Dreamin to Eagle golf outing. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle 9/15/22
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Hadley Miller, 7, looks in the mirror at her new face paint done by Hope from Face Painting by Hope at the Sleepy Hollow Festival in Harmony on Saturday morning, Oct. 15, 2022. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle
