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The Butler County Board of Education met in special session Saturday morning at the Butler County Education Complex, approving a request for the Morgantown Archery team to attend the NASP World Tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. 

The Morgantown City Council met Friday at the at the Eva J. Hawes Building at a called meeting.

Mayor Billy Phelps said the City is taking applications for summer employment until April 29.

Butler County High School track and cross country standout Olivia Neighbors started a new chapter Monday afternoon when she signed a letter of intent today to play at Bresica University. 

Family, friends and long-time coaches were on hand to watch the veteran BCHS athlete sign her commitment to compete at the college level.

The City of Morgantown and Butler County proclaimed April 2016 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month Tuesday morning in the lobby of the Butler County Courthouse. Butler County Judge Executive David Fields and Morgantown Mayor Billy Phelps signed the proclaimation and was joined by several community leaders.
National Child Abuse Prevention Month has been observed each April since its first presidential proclamation in 1983.
 

Beech Tree News provides courthouse statistics on a regular basis. Courthouse information provided in this article is a matter of public record. The following records are from the Butler County Clerk and Circuit Clerk’s offices and cover March 15-31.

UPDATE: The Belmont Church van was located this morning in Edmonson County on Boone Road.  The landowner found the van on his property and called the Kentucky State Police.  The van had been striped. Wheels, tires, battery, radiator, and enables had been removed.  The thieves had sprayed painted over the lettering on the side of the van. 

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R) made a stop at the Butler County Extension Office Tuesday morning to discuss current state and national issues. Senator Paul touched on issues such as unemployment, economic growth and the growing national deficit, noting the debt clock on the wall of his office. “The government is borrowing about a million dollars every minute and that’s a problem,” he said. Butler County Judge David Fields introduced the Senator to a room of approximately 30 people who gathered in the meeting room of the Butler County Extension Office for the event.

Judy Lee Ayers, 78 of Morgantown, Ky. passed away Monday, March 14, 2016 at the Medical Center in Bowling Green, Ky. Judy was born on Thursday, March 10, 1938 in Provo Kentucky to the late Reggie Wayne and Capitola Holman Lee and wife of the late Bobby Joe Ayers. She was a homemaker and a member of Morgantown First United Methodist Church where she enjoyed singing with the church choir and Ms. Lenny's Girls. Other than her parents and husband she is preceded in death by one grandson Chase Gribbins.

The 2016 Butler County Stockman’s Association Cattle Sale is now in the books. It was considered a huge success bringing in $74,634. There were 42 heifers and 4 bulls sold during the annual auction. The average sale price for animals that were sold was just under $1,800. Buyers came from across the state to bid on some of the best breeding stock available in our area. One buyer came from southern Illinois and went home with 3 new heifers for his herd. Farmers that consigned animals to the sale were from Butler, Ohio, Muhlenberg and Edmonson counties.

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles made a visit to Butler County Clerk's office Monday to promote Ag Tag donations. Anyone renewing their farm plates can donate up to $10 to be equally divided among Kentucky 4-H, Kentucky FFA, and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture for promotional programs. In 2015, Ag Tag donations totaled more than $500,000, Quarles said. Butler County Clerk Sherry Johnson said partial donations of less than $10 are welcomed as well.