What's in a name?

School district name change advances

SAXONBURG — A bill before the state Legislature to change the name of the South Butler County School District is moving forward, and changing the name to the Knoch School District seems to be agreeable to locals.

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BHS creating residency program for doctors

About 40% of physicians locally are within 10 years of retirement age.

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Homeowner displaced by fire in mobile home

Cause of blaze unknown

CONNOQUENESSING — A homeowner escaped uninjured from a Wednesday morning fire that destroyed his mobile home in Connoquenessing.

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Rep's human trafficking bill stalls

Senate committee faces backlog

Nearly a year has passed, but state Rep. Marci Mustello's, R-11th, anti-human trafficking bill remains stalled in the state Senate's Judiciary Committee.

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Bond remains for man accused of bilking trucking company

Illinois resident swindled away $2K, police say

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South Butler wants to rush bond to secure interest rate

Board wants to take advantage of lower rate

After learning that interest rates could increase in the coming months, South Butler County School District officials have decided to step on the gas in preparing to secure funding for their upcoming renovation project.

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Mars Area clarifies new quarantine policy

Students who test positive must quarantine for 5 days

Mars Area School District's new quarantine policy, which went into effect Wednesday, makes quarantining optional for close contacts who are asymptomatic, but requires five-day quarantines for students who test positive or who exhibit symptoms of COVID-19.

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Substitute teachers at Mars Area will see daily pay raise

Wages will go up from $90 to $110 per day

ADAMS TWP — At a meeting Tuesday night, the Mars Area School Board gave substitute teachers a raise in their daily rate of pay from $90 per day to $110 per day.

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Rising COVID cases fuels mask debate

Mandates across country are being lifted

Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and the American public grows ever wearier of pandemic-related restrictions.

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COVID-19 REGIONAL DATA

The following numbers on the coronavirus pandemic were compiled from news releases from the state Department of Health.

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Carved in Ice festival returns

The popular Carved in Ice festival, which is organized by the Butler A.M. Rotary, will return to Butler on Feb. 11 and 12.

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Howard Hanna Cranberry to host blood drive Friday

CRANBERRY TWP —Howard Hanna in Cranberry Township will conduct a “Give Blood and Give Back” blood drive at 20930 Route 19 on Friday.

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Spector, singer from the Ronettes, dies at age 78

NEW YORK — Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock 'n' roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group The Ronettes, has died. She was 78.

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High court denies petition

Ruling on Pa. COVID restrictions stands

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition by several Butler County officials and businesses to hear a case regarding the state's COVID-19 restrictions, leaving in place a federal appeals court's decision that the case was moot.

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Omicron variant exacerbates blood shortage

Staff shortages, the omicron variant of COVID-19 and winter weather have combined to make an ongoing blood shortage even more serious for blood services providers in Butler County and nationwide.

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Gov. Wolf: No more shutdowns anticipated

HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration said Tuesday it has no plans to pursue another COVID-19 emergency declaration, or attempt new statewide mitigation measures or vaccine mandates, as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads quickly and overloads Pennsylvania’s hospitals.

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Founding board member of Lighthouse Foundation dies

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SV expands counseling, adds trauma training

CRANBERRY TWP — After the stresses of the last two years of COVID-19 restrictions and the recent deaths by suicide of two teenage students, Seneca Valley School District plans to “ramp up” mental health support for both students and staff.

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Mars changes quarantine policy

Asymptomatic cases treated differently

Mars Area School District approved changes to the district Health and Safety Plan that make quarantining optional for asymptomatic students who are exposed to COVID-19.

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COVID-19 REGIONAL DATA

The following numbers on the coronavirus pandemic were compiled from news releases from the state Department of Health.

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Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain

Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19's alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.

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Police charge SR man following fiery crash

Charges were filed following a state police chase Sunday night in Slippery Rock during which an allegedly drunken driver crashed his vehicle that then caught on fire.

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Man accused in multi-county string of thefts

Car parts found in stolen vehicle

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Jeep fest sign-ups set record

514 registered on first day

Monday was the first day of registration for the 2022 Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival, and the numbers climbed like a CJ-5 up a muddy hill.

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Shoppers find some groceries scarce

Benjamin Whitely headed to a Safeway supermarket in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to grab some items for dinner. But he was disappointed to find the vegetable bins barren and a sparse selection of turkey, chicken and milk.

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