Fast-growing Butler County school district ending contract with local police department

Change is coming to security at Mars Area School District.

The district is ending its longtime contract with Adams Township police. The change affects two resource officers: one at the high school and one at the middle school.

“I was actually a little shocked,” Taylor Ellis said. She’s a Mars graduate and sibling of a current student. “When I was in middle school, high school, I recall there being a lot of bomb threats and everything. So, an Adams Township police presence was really important.”…

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