Kyle Prudhomme

1 week ago | butlereagle.com | Sol McCormick |Kyle Prudhomme

Local News Slippery Rock University’s Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initiative will host “Tuneful Tales,” a morning of music-related events for children, on Saturday, April 19. The event will be hosted at the Swope Music Hall and will be split into three activities. From 10 to 11 a.m., interactive preconcert activities will be offered, including a sing-along room, music and movement space, storytime, and baseball-themed crafts.

1 month ago | butlereagle.com | Steve Ferris |Kyle Prudhomme

Three women testified Monday, March 17, before a Common Pleas Court jury that a man inappropriately touched them multiple times between 2017 and 2022 when they were minors. The testimony came on the first day of the trial of Shawn D. Berkstresser, 54, of Boyers, who is facing a felony count of indecent assault of a person under 13, two counts of corruption of minors and two counts of endangering the welfare of children, and four misdemeanor counts of indecent assault.

1 month ago | butlereagle.com | Steve Ferris |Kyle Prudhomme

Common Pleas Court seats top municipal primary ballot County voters will have the opportunity in the municipal primary to nominate candidates to replace a retiring common pleas court judge and fill a new seventh judge position. With the last day to circulate and file nomination petitions coming Tuesday, March 11, for the May 20 primary, three attorneys have announced their plans to enter the primary for the judicial offices.

1 month ago | butlereagle.com | Steve Cukovich |Kyle Prudhomme

A longstanding Butler County hotel, bar and restaurant announced it is closing Wednesday, March 5, following a Mardi Gras celebration one day prior. The Hotel Saxonburg, 220 W. Main Street in Saxonburg announced in a Facebook post that it will close its doors effective immediately. The business cited health issues, rising costs of food and growing expenses associated with maintaining the historic building in the Facebook post as reasons for ceasing operations.

2 months ago | cranberryeagle.com | Brendan Howe |Rob McGraw |Kyle Prudhomme

JACKSON TWP — Walking across the court on senior night, Tyler Pepin fought away tears. If he had been there, Pepin knows his father wouldn’t have been able to. Seneca Valley’s lone boys basketball senior held bouquets of flowers in both hands Feb. 7, passing through two rows of standing teammates, toward his mother, Irma Pepin, and younger sister, Danielle Pepin. It was a bittersweet moment, with his dad, Dan Pepin, having died unexpectedly in October 2023.