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Butler County receives grant to treat prison inmates with drug use disorder

The county was awarded $200,000 in state funding to cover some of this year’s cost of providing medication for inmates with prescriptions for drug abuse treatment. County...

February 01, 2024 Government

Commissioners studying sports event venue in county’s southern tier

Butler County commissioners on Wednesday, Jan. 31, hired a consultant to look at properties in the southern tier of the county as possible locations for a sports venue fo...

February 01, 2024 Government

Cashdollar sports complex tabled again by Forward planning commission

Forward Township’s planning commission during its first meeting of the year on Tuesday, Jan. 23, voted for a second time to table plans for the proposed Cashdollar multis...

January 31, 2024 Government

McCormick holds campaign event at Hardwood Cafe

PENN TWP — U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick, a native of Bloomsburg who is running as a Republican and hopes to face incumbent Sen. Bob Casey in November, made an ap...

January 30, 2024 Government

State providing first-time funding for Butler County public defender’s offices

Butler County officials are curious to know how much money the state is allocating in first-time funding for the public defender’s office, and how it can be spent. The st...

January 27, 2024 Crime & Courts

Kelly discusses health care costs, budget, foreign affairs

U.S. Rep Mike Kelly, R-16th, said it would probably take more than increasing Medicare reimbursements to help small, independent hospitals and health systems that are str...

January 24, 2024 Government

Proposed Adams Township Wendy’s in limbo due to litigation

ADAMS TWP — A proposed Wendy’s location on Route 228 in Adams Township is currently in limbo due to ongoing litigation between the township and management of the Shoppes ...

January 24, 2024 Business

County commissioners support Southwest Butler County Stormwater Planning Group

The county commissioners approved a $2,500 contribution to the Southwest Butler County Stormwater Planning Group in a resolution that praises the organization’s collabora...

January 18, 2024 Government

Middlesex Township debating compensation for Quality EMS

MIDDLESEX TWP — The supervisors are still trying to work out how much money it will contribute to Quality EMS, the ambulance service which covers the township and several...

January 18, 2024 Government

Forward Township settles planning commission after record-keeping errors

FORWARD TWP — Much of the supervisors meeting Tuesday night, Jan. 9, was spent settling a series of clerical errors regarding the makeup of the township’s planning commis...

January 11, 2024 Government

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