'Hats for Heroes' to raise money for breast cancer fight

Mars Area School District will join in the fight against breast cancer as part of its annual “Hats for Heroes” fundraiser on Oct. 23 to benefit Susan G. Komen Greater Pennsylvania.

10/19/2020 Cranberry Local News

Mars Area High School will host trick-or-treat night

Mars Area High School Student Council will hold a drive-through trick-or-treat Night from 5 to 6 p.m. Oct. 26.

10/19/2020 Cranberry Local News

Mars Centennial seeking supplies for STEAM

Mars Area Centennial School is seeking donations of various supplies to support the school’s STEAM curriculum.

10/19/2020 Cranberry Local News

Mars marching band hosts family, friends

The Mars Area High School Marching Band will host a Family & Friends Night on Oct. 24 at Mars Athletic Complex.

10/19/2020 Cranberry Local News

Sack Attack

SV Defense thwarts Baldwin in 19-16 OT win

JACKSON TWP — Baldwin had to work overtime to grab a lead Saturday at Seneca Valley.

10/19/2020 Cranberry Local News

Humble start for Heinauer

But Mars coach now has 200 wins

ADAMS TWP — It was a humbling start for Scott Heinauer as the head football coach at Mars.

10/19/2020 Cranberry Local News

NC boys soccer team quarantined

CRANBERRY TWP — All 27 people involved with the North Catholic High School boys soccer team will quarantine for 14 days, the school announced Friday.

10/17/2020 Cranberry Local News

TRICK OR TREAT HOURS

Adams Township, trick or treat, 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31

10/17/2020 Cranberry Local News

Halloween, Safely

Maintaining traditions, with precautions

It's like something out of a horror movie: a monster roams the countryside as families huddle behind locked doors in fear. But this Halloween, it isn't the wolfman abroad under Oct. 31's full moon. It's the coronavirus that's still stalking the land.

10/17/2020 Cranberry Local News

Candidates for Congress previewed

Early voting is already underway, but as election day approaches, residents across Butler County will weigh in on three U.S. Congressional elections.

10/17/2020 Cranberry Local News

1 death, 28 COVID cases reported in county

More women died in state from virus

Another person had died from COVID-19 and 28 more confirmed cases of the virus were reported in the county on Friday by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

10/17/2020 Cranberry Local News

Super Evening in Cranberry

Witches, warriors, super heroes, princesses and a few junior first responders took over Cranberry Township Municipal Center Thursday, kicking off an early start to Halloween.

10/16/2020 Cranberry Local News

CARES fund for county businesses, nonprofits alloted

The county commissioners approved CARES grant agreements with 165 entities throughout the county.

10/15/2020 Cranberry Local News

Levine: No future shutdowns planned

Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine discussed a new shift in COVID-19 cases while responding to media inquires at a Wednesday news conference.

10/15/2020 Cranberry Local News

Mars school board OKs payments for building

Mars Area School Board was updated on the middle school project.

10/15/2020 Cranberry Local News

Cuts to tech programs worry parents at Mars

Mars Area School District leaders heard from parents in a virtual meeting Tuesday night regarding cuts made to instructional programming in the area of technology education.

10/15/2020 Cranberry Local News

Adams supervisors vote to SINC-UP traffic signals

Adams Township approved synching three traffic lights Monday.

10/15/2020 Cranberry Local News

Cranberry EMS wins state award

CRANBERRY TWP — In a cleared ambulance bay, decorated with white tablecloths instead of yellow rescue vehicles for the night, Cranberry Township EMS celebrated its receipt of a statewide emergency medical services award Tuesday.

10/15/2020 Cranberry Local News

Mechanical Mission

Mars robotics students launch effort

Kids in the Mars Robotics Association presented plans for uses the potential Mars Discovery Center may hold to local and NASA officials.

10/14/2020 Cranberry Local News

Voters ask about status of mail-in ballots

Election director says forms are being processed

With a larger-than-ever number of requests for mail-in ballots, ceaselessly ringing phones in the county elections office, and mailing problems in other Pennsylvania locales, some Butler County voters are, at least for the moment, left to wonder where their ballots are.

10/14/2020 Cranberry Local News

BC3 says it will start spring classes online

The first three weeks of all credit classes in the spring semester at Butler County Community College will be taught through remote or online instruction.

10/14/2020 Cranberry Local News

Wolf makes it easier for landlords to recoup losses

Gov. Tom Wolf has made it easier for landlords and mortgagees to recoup losses from renters and homeowners who can’t pay rent because of the coronavirus pandemic.

10/14/2020 Cranberry Local News

Route 228 lanes to shift for MSA Thruway work

CRANBERRY TWP —Work on Route 228 for the MSA Thruway will move from the south side of the road to the north side on Tuesday, according to township officials.

10/14/2020 Cranberry Local News

SV student has COVID-19

A Seneca Valley Senior High School student has tested positive for COVID-19.

10/14/2020 Cranberry Local News

Shoplifter accused of taking toothpaste

Brush with the law: man allegedly steals 20 boxes of toothpaste

10/14/2020 Cranberry Local News