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The Kentucky State Police Post in Elizabethtown is still investigating a commercial vehicle accident that happened at just after 3:00 p.m. Friday, and claimed the life of a Butler County man.

According to the preliminary report, a loaded dump truck owned by Bryant Farms, and being operated by 38-year-old Jamie Woosley of Morgantown, was on Kentucky Highway 84 just inside Hardin County, when the truck failed to slow during a decent down a hill.

The Butler County Board of Education held a regular meeting at the Butler County High School on Tuesday, May 12. The meeting discussed topics including construction and open positions within the system, choir and band activities, as well as the amount of college visitation days BCHS seniors would be allowed in upcoming school years.
The agenda, minutes, and treasurer’s report were approved: the ending balance for the month of April was $2,511,630.20, a figure which is up from last year according to treasurer Eric Elms.

Morgantown Bank & Trust would like to invite you to celebrate the retirement of three long-time, loyal employees.  Roberta Gardner, Debbie Young, and Marcelle Daugherty are each retiring at the end of May.

Roberta Gardner has served over 40 years at Morgantown Bank & Trust.  Roberta was hired in August of 1974 as a receptionist.  Later she became teller and customer service representative, secretary and loan processor, and has been a Loan Officer since 2010.

"I want all of you to take a look at this chart.  The entire pie is what it takes to run the city any given year.  The last few years we’ve actually spent more that the revenue we’ve taken in.  So using that information imagine all the services we were able to complete by using those funds be it mowing, administrative staff, sidewalks, etc.  Now take a look at the red section.

The Morgantown City Council on Thursday had the unpleasant task of taking up the first reading of a bare-bones budget for the next fiscal year, and it took up a City Hall initiative to combat blighted property.
 

Morgantown Community Church (MCC) is excited to host author, speaker, and activist Brian McLaren on May 24, 2015, for an afternoon of learning and conversation. Brian served as a pastor for more than 20 years. Since that time he has devoted his energy to writing, speaking, and helping people of faith engage the key issues of our contemporary world.  Brian’s approach is one of generosity, allowing everyone, including those who might disagree with his positions, the space to discuss, learn, and grow.

Hi, my name is Sasha RayAnn Goodall. I am 23-years old and I live in Morgantown, KY. On July 27th, 2012 I was a passenger involved in a car accident. Little did me or my family know how our world would change from this moment on. Our lives were turned upside down. I was airlifted to Vanderbilt Hospital where we received the devastating news that I had obtained a spinal cord injury from the collision. We were told that I was a C-6 incomplete, which meant I would never have movement below my injury.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – In her autobiography "A Trail of Feathers," Tracey Damron gives spiritual explanations for many eventful turns in a life that led her inside the world of Kentucky Republican politics. But her explanation for the breakup of a seven-year marriage to Will T. Scott is an earthly one.

"I loved dressing up and going to fancy dinners," she wrote. "Will T. loved spam and wearing old clothes when he wasn't campaigning."

"That's accurate," Scott said in an interview.

CORBIN, Ky. – Robert Ooten has a strange way of showing politicians that he likes them.

"When I first saw your commercial, I told my wife, 'That guy's an idiot,' " Ooten told Hal Heiner during a campaign stop at Southeast Apparatus LLC, a small company in Corbin that builds fire trucks and ambulances.

"A successful businessman who's not in politics who wants to get into politics? He's an idiot," Ooten, a shop foreman, told Heiner.

The Butler County Fiscal Court met in its first regular session for May on Monday night.

One item of old business awaited the Court. Quotes were compared for doors for the new county recycling center. Magistrate Chad Tyree had asked to get more quotes for the doors at the last meeting of the Court. Tyree presented three quotes, and the Court moved to buy the doors from Hochstetler Door, of Auburn, Ky.  The price of the doors will be $5,002.01, and purchase will be contingent on the doors being insulated. The motion to buy the doors passed by a 5-0 vote.