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West Chester Township trustees will consider three police equipment grants, two state road-funding applications, a mixed-use development public hearing and a 747 Corridor moratorium extension at their Oct. 13 meeting.
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An Ohio appeals court unanimously ruled the EdChoice voucher program unconstitutional on Oct. 15, siding with Lakota Local Schools and more than 300 districts that sued over the diversion of taxpayer dollars to private schools.
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Gov. Mike DeWine formally requested a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for 23 Ohio counties, including Butler County, after August storms that spawned 17 tornadoes, killed two people and damaged more than 1,300 structures statewide.
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West Chester Township trustees will vote Tuesday on hiring a finance director at roughly $140,000 per year, a $160,000 economic development consulting contract, an emergency resolution locking in electricity rates and an $88,646 police vehicle purchase.
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Liberty Center's free Cars & Coffee series has two remaining 2026 dates — Sept. 19 and Oct. 17 — in the Taylor Parking Garage, where car owners display their vehicles and neighbors browse over morning coffee.
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Madison and St. Clair townships filed TIF resolutions to block Trenton from capturing $690 million in Amazon Web Services data center tax revenue, escalating a county-wide fight that lands days before Liberty Township's own data center zoning rules take effect Friday, Aug. 21.
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Luke Kuechly was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday in Canton, with the St. Xavier football team in attendance two weeks before the Bombers open their season Aug. 21 at Lakota West.
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Butler County commissioners voted 2-1 on Aug. 4 to continue a legal challenge against Garver Family Farm Market in Lemon Township, with Commissioner Cindy Carpenter dissenting; the case now heads to Common Pleas Court and could set a precedent for how zoning rules apply to agricultural land countywide, including in West Chester and Liberty townships.
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West Chester State Rep. Jennifer Gross introduced House Bill 983 on July 28, which would require Ohio voters to approve large-scale data centers before they can be built, ban local tax incentives for the industry, and impose new environmental and energy-generation mandates on operators.
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Liberty Township's Board of Zoning Appeals will consider a River Church sanctuary amendment and a front-yard fence variance at its Tuesday, August 11 meeting.
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West Chester and Liberty Township homeowners in the Lakota district won't see Ohio's new Inflation Cap Credit on their school tax bill, but a joint guide from the Butler County Auditor and Treasurer shows they still receive a $12.16-per-$100,000 JVSD credit and can request a refund if they already paid in full.
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The Butler County Engineer's Office lowered the speed limit on Cincinnati Dayton Road between Liberty Way and Princeton Road from 40 mph to 35 mph effective Wednesday, July 22, citing a traffic study on the heavily congested Liberty Township corridor.
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Butler County for Immigrant Justice packed the commissioners' chambers on Tuesday, July 21, marking one year of protests against the county's ICE detention contract, while Commissioner T.C. Rogers defended the county's legal obligation to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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Lakota Local School District families in West Chester and Liberty townships will receive $0.00 from Ohio's new Inflation Cap Credit because the district has not reached the state's 20-mill floor, while neighbors in other Butler County districts are seeing credits of $72 to $122 per $100,000 of appraised value.
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