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Insight 2008

Get Insight into your community's health care, education, business and recreational opportunities. Here you will find a searchable listing of local salaries funded by your tax dollars and stories from the print edition

 

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Insight Articles

Conditions are right for improved housing market
Homeowners in 2007 saw property values deflate faster than a New Year's Eve party balloon. But local experts say conditions are right in 2008 to put some air back into the housing market.

Parks department has plenty of events in store
Cities and townships throughout Butler County offer a number of recreation activities for their residents. Here's a look what will be offered in 2008:

Butler County MetroParks continues to expand
BUTLER COUNTY — As the winter chill dissipated at Voice of America Park, a sense of change permeated the air.

New construction a big part of area school districts' planning
Ten years after the formation of the Ohio School Facilities Commission, many Butler County school districts are in some stage of construction of new buildings or facilities planning. Here's an outlook for schools in the area:

Higher education options increase
Local colleges are riding a wave of graduating high school seniors expected to peak in 2009 when 3.2 million seniors, the largest class in U.S. history, will graduate, according to the National Association of College Admissions Counseling.

Medical facilities built, expanded to meet population's growing needs
BUTLER COUNTY — One hospital moved out of a nearly 100-year-old facility.

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