In this 2020 photo, Brooklyn Peters, 18, of Connoquenessing, applies a spray conditioner while grooming her sheep, Lady.

This is an excerpt from Wednesday's Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to read the full article.The Butler Farm Show is returning in August for its 73rd year after being canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Scheduled for Aug. 9 to 14 at the show grounds on Evans City Road in Connoquenessing Township, the show will include the return of popular entertainment such as truck and tractor pulls and the demolition derby, and 4-H animal and crop shows, said Ken Laughlin, farm show board president, Planning for the show had to begin even though the board doesn't know what outdoor gathering restrictions will have to be imposed, he said.“We have to see what the guidelines will be, but we have to start planning to make it work. The show is based on restrictions. We don't know exactly what that means yet,” Laughlin said.

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