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Jan 14, 2025 | 
butlereagle.com | Jamie Kelly
This year marks 70 years since the first polio vaccine was declared safe and effective, and more than 45 years since the disease was wiped out in the United States. A large part of that story starts in Pittsburgh. In 1947, Dr. Jonas Salk, then a 33-year-old physician and researcher, accepted a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. The next year he started looking into different strains of the polio virus and, by 1955, the vaccine he'd created was going into public use.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
butlereagle.com | Jamie Kelly |Horace Cort |Phelan Ebenhack |David Phillip
Arnold Palmer served three years in the U.S. Coast Guard, but that didn’t stop him from creating an army later in life. Later in life, Palmer would say the first time he saw a sign that said “Arnie’s Army” was in 1959, just a few years after the start of his career. And the fans had a big impact on Palmer, just like he had on the fans.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
butlereagle.com | Jamie Kelly
He was such a good player that the Baseball Writers’ Association of America changed its Hall of Fame rules after his death, to make sure he got in, but Roberto Clemente’s impact on the world went well beyond the baseball diamond. Clemente, who died in a plane crash Dec. 31, 1972, at the age of 38, was a superstar baseball player and a world-renowned philanthropist. And as an article on the Baseball Hall of Fame website explained, his baseball talent earned him an extra honor.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
butlereagle.com | Jamie Kelly |Rob McGraw
While campaigning for the last election, Butler County Commissioner Kevin Boozel attended municipal meetings across Butler County, where he witnessed something he already knew: Life is drastically different between northern to southern Butler County. In the first few minutes of a municipal meeting in southwestern Butler County, Boozel remembers seeing $250,000 to $300,000 allocated to projects.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
cranberryeagle.com | Jamie Kelly |Katrina Quinn |Justin Guido |Dave Prelosky
While much has changed in Clinton Township since its formation in the 1850s, a visitor would see echoes of its past. The township, 23.8 square acres, was created in 1854 out of portions of Buffalo and Middlesex townships. It was named for a region in County Down in Ireland.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
cranberryeagle.com | Jamie Kelly
Many of them, like George Hepler, were born in Butler County, while others worked in the area, were visiting or were just passing through, but all of them risked their lives to try and save someone else. Since it was established in 1904, the Carnegie Hero Fund has award 10,000 Carnegie Medals to people for acting to save someone in a moment of crisis. At least 20 of those have gone to people for acts in and around Butler County.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
butlereagle.com | Jamie Kelly |Steve Helber |Gene Puskar
It's quite literally the stuff of nightmares — you are trapped underground, in the dark, in the cold, and water is rising all around you. For the nine men who found themselves trapped in the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, that nightmare would last for more than three days, but would end, miraculously, with all of them rescued. All nine men, Randall Fogle, Harry “Blaine” Mayhugh Jr., Thomas “Tucker” Foy, John Unger, John Phillippi, Ron Hileman, Dennis J.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
butlereagle.com | Jamie Kelly |Dave Prelosky |Justin Guido
The pressure from the water against the dam led to Glade Run Lake being drained in 2011, but pressure from a group of dedicated neighbors got the dam rebuilt and the lake restored. Glade Run Lake dates to the 1950s, when the state used federal money to buy about 145 acres of land and create a 52-acre lake for recreational fishing and other outdoor activities. As the Glade Run Lake Conservancy notes on its website, on the opening day of trout season in 1955 as many as 8,000 anglers showed up.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
cranberryeagle.com | Jamie Kelly |Chris Pizzello |Charles Sykes |Jacquelyn Martin
The history of “Hamilton: An American Musical,” appropriately enough, is something of a melting pot. The obvious origin was in the 1750s on the Caribbean island of Nevis. That's where Alexander Hamilton was born, though he wouldn't stay there very long. Hamilton's rise from poverty and obscurity to the very center of power in the early days of the American Republic has inspired plenty of others. Author Ron Cherenow was so taken with it that he spent years writing a massive biography.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
butlereagle.com | Jamie Kelly |Chris Pizzello |Charles Sykes |Jacquelyn Martin
The history of “Hamilton: An American Musical,” appropriately enough, is something of a melting pot. The obvious origin was in the 1750s on the Caribbean island of Nevis. That's where Alexander Hamilton was born, though he wouldn't stay there very long. Hamilton's rise from poverty and obscurity to the very center of power in the early days of the American Republic has inspired plenty of others. Author Ron Cherenow was so taken with it that he spent years writing a massive biography.
