Paul and Jan Sporter seize the moment for an impromptu dance on Main Street in Butler during the city's annual Italian Festival Saturday. Hank Edwardo of Bloomfield provided musical accompaniment on the accordion. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle
Activities Assistant, Tiffany Steiner, delivers ice cream in Concordia's homemade ice-cream truck that which maintenance workers made out of a scooter. Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle.
Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Adam Benson, a 7th/8th grade technology teacher at Mars Middle School checks backpacks prior to students walking through the metal detectors during the first day of school, Tuesday, September 08, 2020.
Harold Aughton/Butler Eagle: Mark Rodgers, band director, at Mars Middle School directs traffic as students enter the school during the first day Tuesday, September 8, 2020.
“Hunting Nostalgia” airs on Armstrong Neighborhood Channel and on Youtube. “I’m from Mars, and I can really showcase people and places and events here, and that to me is the most important,” Nick Bartley says. Julia Maruca/Butler Eagle
Roree, 8, of Mars, will attend PA Cyber Charter School again this fall. Julia Maruca / Butler Eagle
Roree, 8, of Mars, will attend PA Cyber Charter School this fall. Julia Maruca / Butler Eagle
Zawitz said she wouldn’t feel comfortable returning her kids to in-person classes unless the district mandated masks. Julia Maruca / Butler Eagle
Alison Zawitz and her 8 year old daughter Roree sit in front of their home with their dog Charlotte. Zawitz enrolled her kids in cyber school again this fall out of concern over COVID precautions. Julia Maruca / Butler Eagle
Old Butler County County Court House clock tower clock mechanism. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle April 2021
Butler County County Court House clock tower bell. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle April 2021
Butler County County Court House clock tower bell inscription dating to 1886. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle April 2021
Inside the Butler County Court House clock tower -- view of the old clock operating room. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle April 2021
Butler County Court House clock tower viewed from the roof. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle April 2021
Evalina Steinhiser, 2, and Kayson Maskal, 5, ride the car carousel at the Saxonburg Carnival Thursday night. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 08/19/21