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On Thurs., April 28th, Kentucky Housing Corporation and the U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development presented Oak Valley Apartments with the Outstanding Performance Property Award. Oak Valley has provided our community with affordable, decent housing for over 35 years. The property was constructed in 1979 by the late Shafter and Camilla Howard, of Morgantown. It is now owned and operated by the partnership of their sons, Jerry Howard, of Morgantown, and Michael and Linda Howard, of Newport News, VA.

Tips, texts and social media have led to the arrest of a Morgantown man on multiple charges, including manufacturing methamphetamine. 

Morgantown Care and Rehabilitation Center celebrated the National Day of Prayer Thursday with a service at their facility. 

It’s been thirty years since the community of Rochester, Kentucky had a ball park. After two years of work, much of it from hardworking volunteers, the Rochester Ball Park was unveiled Saturday.
 “Today we are here to celebrate the official opening of our ballpark and to recognize those who made it possible for us to reopen this ballpark after being closed for 30 years,” Amber Smith said as she welcomed those in attendance.

Kentucky’s finest small businesses and the small-business community were celebrated in the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort during Kentucky Celebrates Small Business, an awards ceremony presented by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center and the Kentucky District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration May 3.

Gov. Matt Bevin opened the awards ceremony by signing a proclamation recognizing National Small Business Week in the state.

Butler County residents of different backgrounds and beliefs gathered in front of the courthouse lawn Thursday at noon in observance of the 65th National Day of Prayer. 

The theme of the event, which was organized by Gina Tynes, was Wake Up America. 

On Saturday, May 14 at 11 A.M. CDT, a naming ceremony for State Highway 505 will be held at New Zion Baptist Church in Baizetown to honor the late Jewell Creston Embry.

Jewell Creston Embry was born in Baizetown, Kentucky in January of 1920. At age 16 he walked 50 miles to enlist in the United States Naval Service. During World War II, after an intense battle in the Straits of Malucca, Embry was taken as a POW by the Japanese. He was moved around to different camps, tortured repeatedly, and forced to do slave labor.

Madison Embry was selected as Murray State University’s 2016 Outstanding Senior Woman for the spring commencement.  Along with Outstanding Senior Man, this is the highest honor MSU can bestow on one of their graduating seniors.  Embry will be giving one of the valedictions during graduation on May 14th. 

Madison Embry will receive a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting this spring. She currently has a 3.97 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale.

Morgantown's McDonald's location recently unveiled a renovated store to the community with April 23's Grand Reopening. 

The Kentucky Historical Marker #2487 and the 13th for Butler County was unveiled in the Little Muddy Community on Sunday afternoon, May 1.