Pennsylvania
2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show butter sculpture celebrates dairy cows as
One thousand pounds of Pennsylvania-made butter have formed a work of art celebrating the dairy farmers of the Keystone State and their cattle.
The Pennsylvania Farm Show unveiled its annual butter sculpture for the 2025 event on Thursday. The sculpture is called “From Moo to Marvel: Dairy Cows Power Pennsylvania.”
Conshohocken-based artists Jim Victor and Marie Pelton spent weeks sculpting a massive cow and additional smaller pieces like a wheel of cheese, a jug of milk, a barn, plants and a methane digester.
Land O’Lakes, which has a plant in Carlisle, Cumberland County, donated the butter used in the sculpture. The American Dairy Association announced the sculpture in a news release and said it highlights how waste and byproducts from cows and dairy farms can help create energy.
The methane digester, also called an anaerobic digester, takes waste products like manure, leftover frying oil, sewage and even pre-sculpted butter and converts them to biogas and solid digestate. Biogas is mostly methane and can be used by natural gas companies for heating and electricity or turned into fuel for vehicles.
Digestate can be treated and turned into fertilizer or compost for farmers’ fields.
Pelton and Victor have worked on butter sculptures together for 25 years. They spoke to CBS News Philadelphia in 2024 after the unveiling of last year’s farm show sculpture, “A Table For All,” showing a family at a dinner table with their animals.
That sculpture was placed in a methane digester and broken down into energy after last year’s Farm Show.
“It has a whole life after being a work of art,” Pelton said last year.
The latest sculpture will meet the same fate.
While it’s still intact, you can see the sculpture up close at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, running Jan. 4-11, 2025, at the Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg.
In addition to this dairy art, the farm show features animal shows, sales and photo judging, various competitive cooking contests, rodeo events and much more.
Pennsylvania
Man cited after abandoning car in frozen pond at Pennsylvania country club: Police
A man has been cited after police said he drove a vehicle into a frozen pond at a country club in Pennsylvania, left the scene, then spent the night in a hotel.
According to the East Lampeter Township Police Department, on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, around 10:38 a.m., officers were called to the Lancaster Country Club after receiving reports about a vehicle in a pond.
Police said that, through an investigation, it was learned that Sung Chun, a 50-year-old man from Hoboken, New Jersey, had driven onto the property the day before around 8:30 p.m., crossed portions of the golf course, and ultimately ended up in a pond.
Chun then exited the vehicle and walked away without reporting the incident and spent the night at a nearby hotel, according to police.
Credit: East Lampeter Township Police Department
Credit: East Lampeter Township Police Department

Credit: East Lampeter Township Police Department
Police said Chun returned to the location while police were on scene investigating the incident and was ultimately cited with “Trespass by Motor Vehicle.”
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What the war with Iran could mean for gas prices in western Pennsylvania
The war with Iran could start impacting your wallet as soon as today.
Jim Garrity from AAA East Central says oil prices are up.
“They’re hovering around $72. They were pretty consistently around $65, $66 for a while,” he said.
Nationally, AAA said the average for a gallon of regular sits at about $3, up approximately six cents from last week.
In Pennsylvania, it’s around $3.12 a gallon, and in the Pittsburgh region, it’s around $3.24 a gallon. That’s actually down about four cents from last week.
Garrity added that gas prices this time of year would already be increasing, usually because of higher demand for the warmer months and the production of the summer blend of gas used for those months.
The impacts of what’s happening in Iran may not be immediate, which could be part of why our region and the state overall have not seen a spike yet, he said.
“It could be a couple of days later. It could be up to a week later,” Garrity said.
A lot of people are watching what happens with the Strait of Hormuz. Iran borders it to the north, and 20% of the world’s oil goes through it.
Iran is one of the world’s biggest oil producers, and China gets a lot of that oil.
“If there is an impact there, you could see oil start to come in from other parts of the world, which has a downstream effect on [the United States],” Garrity said.
One way you can save on gas if prices increase in our area is by slowing down.
“When you drive faster every five miles, over 50 miles an hour, your fuel efficiency is going down,” Garrity said. “You’re making the car work harder, making the gasoline consumption less effective.”
Garrity added that in 2022, when our area and many others saw some of the highest gas prices ever recorded, people changed their driving habits.
“We saw people make seemingly permanent changes to their driving behaviors, driving less in general, consolidating trips,” he said.
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