News Releases

The French Creek Multimodal Corridor, along with the Crawford Area Transportation Authority, were awarded  $110,000 from the Commonwealth Financing Authority at its meeting this afternoon, Senator Michele Brooks and Rep. Brad Roae announced today.   [Read More]

Multi-modal projects in Springfield Township and the Borough of Stoneboro have been awarded state grants to improve connectivity and walkability, Senator Michele Brooks announced today after the proposals were approved at a meeting of the Commonwealth Financing Authority this afternoon.   [Read More]

State Sen. Michele Brooks and Rep. Mark Longietti announced today that the Commonwealth Financing Authority has awarded $426,067 in grants to fund expansions to the Hermitage Athletic Complex and improvements to Greenville’s Riverside Park and Hermitage’s Bobby Run stream.           [Read More]

The Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) approved a $14,274 award for the Edinboro American Legion Pool in Erie County today, to replace a failing heater that enables people to use the pool even on cooler days in the early and late summer.   [Read More]

Due to the Veterans Day holiday, the Veterans Service Officer from the American Legion who partners with Sen. Michele Brooks to help veterans will postpone his regularly scheduled visit to her Greenville office by one week.   [Read More]

As the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor approaches, Sen. Michele Brooks invites 11th grade students attending schools in her Senatorial District to enter an essay contest on the significance of this turning point in history.   [Read More]

The ongoing effort to halt the closure of the Polk State Center and White Haven State Center advanced today with Senate committee passage of legislation sponsored by Senator Scott Hutchinson (R-21), Senator John Yudichak (I-14), Senator Michele Brooks (R-50) and Senator Lisa Baker (R-20).   [Read More]

Sen. Michele Brooks announced that Linesville has been approved for $1,073,220 in funding from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (PennVEST) to replace cast-iron and lead piping installed at the turn of the century.   [Read More]

Sen. Michele Brooks is excited to announce that she is working with state and local officials to host a public meeting on the reopening of Tuttle Point Campground in Espyville, Crawford County, in partnership with township supervisors, North and South Shenango Joint Municipal Authority, the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and the Department of General Services (DGS).   [Read More]

The Senate Health & Human Services Committee and the Aging & Youth Committee will hold a joint hearing to examine new regulations for long-term care nursing facilities being proposed by the Wolf Administration.   [Read More]

The Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania General Assembly—President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Centre/Mifflin/Juniata/Huntingdon), Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler (R-Lancaster), Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland), and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin)—wrote a letter joined by Senate Health and Human Services Chairman Michele Brooks (R-Crawford/Erie/Mercer/Warren) and House Health Committee Chairman Kathy Rapp (R-Warren/Crawford/Forest) to Gov. Tom Wolf and Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam seeking more specific COVID-19 data from the Wolf administration. Read Letter   [Read More]