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The Morgantown City Council held a called meeting on Wednesday, September 5, at the Eva J. Hawes  Agriculture and Expo Community Center. Council members Sharon Phelps, Russell Givens, Gary Southerland, and Edra Dean Hampton were in attendance.  With only three items on the agenda, the council held a relatively short meeting as compared to some recent meetings.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Heston Arnold, Trevor Cardwell, Timothy Carroll, Madison Embry and Cody Lockhart of Butler County High School have been named Senator Jeff Green Scholars by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA) for their outstanding academic performance in high school. Students earn this designation by achieving a 4.0 grade point average each year of high school and scoring at least a 28 composite on the ACT.

Butler County Middle School has implemented a new Bully-Free Program. The week of August 13th through the 17th the teachers conducted lessons each day on different aspects of bullying and strategies for handling this situation. The lessons were:

Day 1: What is Bullying?

Day 2: Forms of Bullying

A new business is opening in Morgantown!  Blanford Auto Sales & Details, LLC, opens Tuesday, September 4. This new business is located at 20 Veteran’s Way, on the lot between the Farm Boy and Garcia’s restaurants.

UPDATE: According to law enforcement Christina Gunterman,23, of Owensboro was north bound when her SUV crossed the median and hit the tractor trailer owned by Fikes Truck Line of Arkansas.  The truck went off the right side of the parkway and overturned. Gunterman was not injured.  The driver of the tractor trailer was transported to the Medical Central with non-emergency injuries . 

Orginial story:

On Saturday September 1st, a book signing was held for "Images of America: Butler County" a book written by Roger G. Givens, retired newspaper publisher, and Nancy Richey. The book is part of the "Images of America" series published by Arcadia Publishing in South Carolina. Givens states that the book contains a little over 200 photographs, each with a 50-70 word caption. He says they submitted 220 photographs but some were not included by the publisher due to quality limitations.

UPDATE: The driver of the car was James Lacefield of Grayson County.

A single car accident on Love-Lee Road near the Grayson County line earlier this evening resulted in one person being airlifted to the University of Louisville Hospital.  The driver of the 1993 Chevy Lumina left the roadway and over turned.  His name has not been released. 

Responding to the scene were the Fourth District Fire Department, Butler County Rescue Squad, Butler County Sheriff Deputy Joe Alford, Air Evac, and the Kentucky State Police.

The 2012 Football Homecoming Queen is Sierra Fields.  She is the daughter of Greg and Michelle Fields of Morgantown.  Homecoming King is Jacob Richmond the son of David and Kelly White Richmond of Possum Hollow.

Gov. Steve Beshear has promoted longtime aide Larry Bond to be his chief of staff. Bond is a native of Butler County who now lives in Louisville. He is the son of the late Troy Bond and Ailene Bond of Morgantown. Bond succeeds Mike Haydon, who died suddenly earlier this month.

Bond, who had been serving since 2010 as a deputy chief of staff, previously was commissioner and later deputy secretary of the Department of Public Protection.

UPDATE: The Bridget Renea, replacement ferry barge for Reed’s ferry, began its last leg of travel down the Green River Wednesday morning as those who helped build it and others watched. The trip, expected to take four hours according to the crew, was to begin at mile mark 142, Aberdeen boat ramp.  It would pass the old Borah ferry site at mile mark 132, then on to the Reed’s ferry site at mile mark 123. 

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