Mars News

Photo by Amy Cherry Pastor Dwayne Burfield has been instrumental in leading the United Methodist Church congregation in numerous projects during his four years of service to the St.

Jun 24, 2009 5:15 pm US/Eastern Reporting John Shumway MARS 1 of 1 Nearly 500 children from around the country converged at Mars High School to participate in the Old Spice Ben Roethlisberger Football Camp 2009.

Charlotte Kruse of Le Mars, pictured here with her parents Ida and Charles Miller, longtime owners of Miller's Lunch on Highway 75 North in Le Mars, will serve up rootbeer floats from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Miller's Lunch display at the Plymouth County Historical Museum in Le Mars.

Some of Aaron Wollerton's fondest memories are of attending Vacation Bible School at the Zelienople Church of the Nazarene.

The Mars Area School District has devised a plan to ensure that school volunteers are not registered child abusers.

A car crashed into a grocery store late Friday morning in Mars, Butler County. According to Butler County 911, the car crashed into the Foodland grocery store along Grand Avenue at about 11:15 a.m. There is no word on what caused the crash or whether anyone was injured.

The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has scheduled a meeting in Mars next month to ask people for ideas about improving outdoor recreation, the department said today.

Students in the Mars Area School District will be paying a little more for lunch next year.

Taxes apparently will not go up in the Mars Area School District next year. The school board yesterday approved a $37.20 million tentative budget that holds the line on taxes.

Last week: Kline finished first in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles at the Tri-State Track Coaches Association meet, one of the biggest early season invitationals in Western Pennsylvania.

The Greater Pittsburgh Area chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society is hosting its 32nd annual Sportsmen's Banquet on Thursday, April 16, 2009.

Pine-Richland stadium's worn turf, the subject of safety concerns in the school district, will be replaced at a cost of $382,708. The Pine-Richland school board voted unanimously last night to award the contract to replace the synthetic turf to low bidder ProGrass, a limited liability company headquartered in Downtown Pittsburgh that has installed ...

A federal judge dismissed remaining claims in a lawsuit filed by a Butler County woman who said Cranberry police wrongfully imprisoned her and accused her of lying after she reported a rape and robbery.

Big leagues: Ryan Royce put his teams rover on a kit path map during class at Chambersburg Area Senior High School.

Police say a brazen serial robber passed a note to a teller to get an unknown amount of money from the Mars National Bank in West Deer yesterday morning, police said.

A proposed $4.1 million budget for the Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School appears headed to approval over the objection of South Butler County and Seneca Valley school boards.

Rosemary Jorden's busy life revolved around her family, her businesses and her faith.

It started off as a five-minute short film assignment for school. When it was done, the documentary investigating the social and economic impact of global warming had interviews with politicians, academics and ...

Police arrested eight suspects in a drug arrest sweep conducted in Butler County on Tuesday.

Mars jumped to a decisive advantage and cruised home from there, earning a 6-3 victory against Westmont-Hilltop in a PIHL Class A quarterfinal at Bladerunners in Warrendale.