Butler County’s rich tradition in high school soccer has added two more chapters this season. Seneca Valley’s boys (Class 4A) and Freeport’s girls (2A) are one victory aw...
School districts across the county are using Veterans Day, and the days around it, as a chance to honor veterans while giving students a chance to interact with and learn...
As America pushed westward, old divisions over slavery deepened — setting the stage for Civil War.
America was halfway through its first full century as a free nation in ...
Butler County’s past lives on in more than historical markers and names on tombstones. Many institutions created over a century ago still exist in the county, if in alter...
It’s impossible to know who the first person to discover oil on the banks of Oil Creek in Venango County was, because by the time settlers arrived, Native Americans had b...
Betsey Stivert Grossman must have been nervous when she agreed to accompany her husband, Benedict, upon his decision in 1797 to move their family from York County to the ...
Stephen Collins Foster was born on the Fourth of July 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — in what’s now the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pit...
JACKSON TWP — After months of deliberation and public controversy, Seneca Valley’s school board has approved bids for the physical construction costs of its intermediate ...