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12 stress-busting activities you can do in Butler County

Beat the Winter Blues
Butler Community Library youth services librarian Tiffany Harkleroad organizes books at the library Tuesday. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 11/16/21

The holidays are long gone. Spring is not even on the horizon.

Winter doldrums, cabin fever, call it what you will, long nights and cold days can send stress levels soaring.

But there are many stress-busting fun activities available that may break your malaise without draining your bank account:

Read a book.

Butler County has nine public libraries packed with mysteries, romances, action, adventure or history. You can join most of these libraries, — including Butler County Community College’s — for free as a county resident. The nine libraries are all part of the Butler County Federated Library System.

“(Reading) sort of transports you to another place or another frame of mind, depending on what it is that you’re reading,” said Tiffany Harkleroad, the youth services librarian at the Butler Area Public Library. “If you get very wrapped up in a fiction story, like a novel, it’s going to kind of transport you into those characters’ worlds and focusing on their lives and maybe not so much your own for a little bit.”

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