The Butler Pennsylvania Blog ~
Keeping up with past and present happenings in a remarkable small town.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
BHS Football ~ 2024
08/23 BHS 14 [L ] - Shaler - 20
08/30 BHS 42 [W] - Brashear - 0
09/06 BHS 35 [W] - Meadville 11
09/13 BHS 00 [L ] - Hollidaysburg - 24
09/20 BHS 17 [L ] - Westinghouse - 28
09/27 BHS 31 [W] - Connellsville - 0
10/04 BHS 13 [L ] - University - 17
10/10 BHS 07 [W] - Allerdice - 0
10/18 BHS 30 [L ] - Wheeling Park - 4710/25 BHS 14 [L ] - Clarion - 49
Monday, September 02, 2024
Unforgotten BHS ' 74 Graduate
1956 - 2024
Joseph Patrick Colligan
Joe was born in Butler and graduated from Butler High School in 1974. He so much wanted to attend his 50th class reunion this fall.
While growing up, Joe always dreamed of being on stage, he often kept his family and friends laughing at his original skits, jokes and imitations. In his high school years, he landed on the stages of Butler High School, where he shined in "Barefoot in the Park," "1776," as Charlie in "Flowers for Algernon" and Pellinore in "Camelot.".
Friday, July 19, 2024
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Sunday, June 09, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Monday, March 18, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Sunday, February 04, 2024
Saturday, January 06, 2024
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Thursday, September 07, 2023
BHS Football ~ 2023
08/26 BHS 07 [L] - Shaler - 38
09/01 BHS 27 [W] - Meadville - 26
09/08 BHS 38 [W] - Brashear - 0
09/15 BHS 13 [L] - Hollidaysburg - 33
09/22 BHS 19 [L] - Erie - 20
09/29 BHS 00 [L] - Seneca Valley - 55
10/06 BHS 07 [L] - Westinghouse - 36
10/13 BHS 07 [L] - Cathedral Prep - 54
10/20 BHS 12 [L] - McDowell - 52
10/27 BHS 07 [L] - Latrobe - 42
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Wednesday, August 02, 2023
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Bill May ~ BHS '77 ~ Butler Historian
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Bruce Yuhas BHS '70 ~ Butler Author
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Carl Yankowski BHS '66
Saturday, May 13, 2023
David Pichler ~ attended BHS ca.'86 ~ Olympic Diver
David Pichler was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. He began diving at the age of 15. At 32 he had won 12 national titles and was generally considered a threat in international competition, He was on the national team since 1989, and competed in the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Friday, March 03, 2023
Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Deshon Hospital ~ 1942
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Koch Building ~
Waymarking
Butler architect F.J. Porter, who designed the home of George Troutman(now City Hall) and the First Methodist Episcopal Church, also designedthis 1910 neo-classical revival building.
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Monday, November 21, 2022
November 22, 1963 ~ J.F.K. - Walter Cronkite Tribute
CBS
"It is said that the human mind has a greater capacity for remembering the pleasant than the unpleasant. But today was a day that will live in memory and in grief. Only history can write the importance of this day: Were these dark days the harbingers of even blacker ones to come, or like the black before the dawn shall they lead to some still as yet indiscernible sunrise of understanding among men, that violent words, no matter what their origin or motivation, can lead only to violent deeds? This is the larger question that will be answered, in part, in the manner that a shaken civilization seeks the answers to the immediate question: Who, and most importantly what, was Lee Harvey Oswald? The world’s doubts must be put to rest. Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed. If in the search of our conscience we find a new dedication to the American concepts that brook no political, sectional, religious or racial divisions, then maybe it may yet be possible to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die in vain. That’s the way it is, Monday, November 25, 1963. This is Walter Cronkite, good night."
Wednesday, November 02, 2022
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Marc Fogel BHS '80 ~ Prisoner in Russia
Marc Fogel is a Butler native. He taught high school history in Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Venezuela and, for the last decade, at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. He had planned to retire this year with his wife Jane Fogel in Oakmont.
Marc Fogel, 61, has been held in Russia for just over a year. He was detained at an airport upon returning for the school year when his luggage was found to contain medical marijuana, which was recommended by a doctor to treat severe chronic pain from his history of spinal surgeries.
Monday, October 03, 2022
BHS Football ~ 2022 ~ 4W - 7 L
08/26 BHS 35 [W] - Shaler - 28
09/02 BHS 14 [L] - Meadville - 21
09/09 BHS 35 [W] - Brashear - 22
09/16 BHS 40 [W] - Hollidaysburg - 20
09/23 BHS 37 [W] - Erie - 20
09/30 BHS 07 [L] - Seneca Valley - 42
10/07 BHS 06 [L] - Westinghouse - 39
10/14 BHS 14 [L] - Erie Cathedral - 40
10/21 BHS 24 [L] - Eire McDowell - 48
10/28 BHS 14 [L] - Latrobe - 28
11/04 BHS 07 [L} - Erie McDowell - 62
Thursday, September 08, 2022
Paul Gaudino ~ BHS '53 ~ 35 Years of Butler Fitness
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
J. B. Sherman ~ Butler Car Maker ~ Star Iron Works
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Michael Dittman ~ Butler Author
Amazon
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Wednesday, July 06, 2022
Michelle Vargo ~
Michelle is a professional dancer who has been gracing the stage of the Metropolitan Opera for 24 years!