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Turbulent Times

Financial advisers help clients navigate storms

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The pandemic and economic meltdown gave the public a one-two punch in the spring, but local financial advisers recommend investors maintain the course they plotted before the upheaval.

It's been quite the start to autumn. The COVID-19 pandemic rages nearly unchecked, no one knows where the stock market is headed, and another consumer stimulus package has stalled in Congress.

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Strategies for putting more money in savings

Saving money is a top priority for many Americans, but it becomes even more important in these times of economic uncertainty and turmoil.

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All for a Good Cause

Teacher, former Steeler team up for charity

Butler Area School District teacher Erich Campbell, left, and former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rocky Bleier pose with the painting of Bleier that Campbell made for charity.

BASD art teacher Erich Campbell made a painting of former Pittsburgh Steelers fullback Rocky Bleier that was auctioned off and raised $1,400 for charity.

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Stroll in the park

Butler residents and former co-workers Michele Anthony, left, and Chelsea Werth used to spend their lunch break walking together. The stay-at-home moms recently reconnected and began walking with their children at Alameda Park.

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75th Anniversary: Pair met in strawberry patch, tied knot in 1945

COVID-19 curtails their celebration

Ray and Edith Atkinson of Butler will mark their 75th wedding anniversary on Sept. 29. They were married in 1945, upon Ray's return from World War II.

A strawberry patch and a possible match-making uncle were the start of a 75-year marriage that Ray and Edith Atkinson will celebrate Sept. 29.

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Sign of historic times

George Washington, the first U.S. president, and mastodons, a prehistoric, tusked mammal, never lived at the same time, but a new sign erected by Washington’s Trail 1753 at Moraine State Park explains how the two are tangentially connected.

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Brews for books

Special beer celebrates library's anniversary

From left, ShuBrew workers Nate Banks, David Leong and Brian Thomas pose by the tanks where the Reader's Relief beer is brewing. ShuBrew will donate $1 per pint of Reader's Relief sold to the Zelienople Area Public Library.

ZELIENOPLE — When the Zelienople Area Public Library first approached ShuBrew about creating a special beer in honor of its 100th anniversary, no one knew how the year would turn out.

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Sunset for sunflowers

The last remaining patch of sunflowers in the fields along Beacon Road remain in bloom while the rest have fallen for the season.

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Puppy Plunge

Cranberry opens pool to the pooches

The Costanzo family's Golden Retriever, Winston, 3, leads his new Goldendoodle friend, Fenway, 6, across a catwalk at the Cranberry Community Waterpark during Saturday's Puppy Plunge, while Kacie Costanzo, 8, and her mom, Erika Costanzo, watch.

While air at the Cranberry Township Community Waterpark is normally filled with the smell of chlorine and the sounds of children splashing, on Saturday those sensations were supplanted by the smell of wet dog and lots of barking for the 15th Puppy Plunge.

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A Walk Through History

Maggie Reimers, right, and Angela Bachman of Prospect serve as Civil War era re-enactors during Saturday's Echoes From Our Past Historic Cemetery Walk at North Side Cemetery.

The Butler County Historical Society conducted its “Echoes from Our Past” cemetery walk Saturday at the North Side Cemetery in Butler.

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A Community Sound

Local rap artists TR3 Truly, above , and Eldoon, and Tommy Hosack, below, perform Friday at the Butler Arts Center on Main Street. The show was organized by the Butler Hip Hop and Rap Community and included a food drive.

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RELATIVELY SPEAKING

BC3 noncredit courses focus on family

Left, William Knox, of Mars, and the seventh William Knox in his family dating to 1793 in Kilmacow, Ireland, has a 1893 photograph of his great-grandparents, Michael and Bridget McMullen, and their children who were from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. At right, Nadine Neff of Chicora has found that she is the blood relative of some 51,488 living people, plus the late Teunis Couvers, born in 1635 in what is now Brooklyn, N.Y. Knox and Neff will conduct ancestry classes through Butler County Community College's Lifelong Learning program this fall.
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Nadine Neff has found she is the blood relative of some 51,488 living people — and of the late Teunis Couvers, born in 1635 in what is now Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Butler veteran of the Army uses interest in recording to preserve stories for posterity Life full of peril, service

Kurt Esman of Butler shows off his anime collection, one of his many interests in a life that has included military service and recording fellow veterans' stories for the Veterans History Project.

Kurt Esman's doctors told him he shouldn't be alive today.

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Residents recall grim anniversary of terrorist attacks

Planes used as weapons 19 years ago

Karl Pool and his custom painted motorcycle honoring the memories of those that lost their lives in 911.

The terrorist attack 19 years ago will never be forgotten by anyone who remembers it.

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New historical drama starts at theatre festival

Actors who are playing roles in the Freeport Theatre Festival show “President Arthur's Inspiration” conduct an open-air reading the first day of rehearsal. The show opens Friday.

Freeport Theatre Festival is presenting the premiere of a new historical drama, “President Arthur's Inspiration.” Written and directed by Mike Firek, the play opens Friday.

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Water view: Educator spotlights threats to lake's wildlife

State DCNR environmental education specialist Mike Shaffer leads an exploration via kayak of one of Lake Arthur's inlets Wednesday at Moraine State Park.

Natural habitats like Lake Arthur are constantly under attack from foreign entities and invasive species, and Moraine State Park is marking those dangers for the 50th anniversary of the lake's creation.

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Focus on Families: Ex-commissioner digs deep into local history

Former Butler County Commissioner Bill McCarrier presents his book, “Families and Homes of West Sunbury,” to Kathy Kline, director of the North Trails Public Library, on Wednesday.

CHERRY TWP — Bill McCarrier Sr. has been a high school physics teacher, company founder and Butler County commissioner.

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Uplifting Beat

Nonprofit tries to unite rap, community service

Butler Hip Hop and Rap Community founder Everett B. Roy, 33, of Saxonburg picks up trash Saturday in Butler's Island neighborhood with Ryan Fichter, 24. Roy and other volunteers spend time each week in a different part of Butler collecting trash.

Everett B. Roy started the Hip Hop and Rap Community in 2019 to put on rap shows and perform community service.

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Beacon to the Faithful

New Ukrainian Orthodox pastor tends flock in Lyndora

The Rev. Yurii Bobko lights a candle Saturday at SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The Rev. Yurii Bobko was named pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 21 Evergreen St., in January but soon found his Sunday services sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Suicide Awareness

St. Peter's Reformed Church in Zelienople and veteran's awareness charity Mission 22 display 660 small American Flags representing the average number of veterans that die from suicide each month in the United States.