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North Butler Elementary has released their supply lists.

PK

Nap Mat (thin red/blue vinyl only)

Change of clothes

*Optional:*

Box of tissues

Dry erase markers

Gallon/Quart Ziploc bags

Baby wipes

Kindergarten

Change of clothes (in a ziplock bag, marked with your

child’s name) (t-shirt, leggings, pull up athletic pants,

undergarments, socks)

Standard size backpack

One package of #2 pencils (sharpened)

As producers, it is important for us to not only produce the best possible product but to be good environmental stewards. Nutrient management plans help us do that.

They may not bear a family resemblance, but cucumbers and pumpkins are closely related. They are cucurbits, a family that includes other popular garden plants such as zucchini, summer squash, winter squash, cantaloupe and watermelons. They all tend to take up a lot of room in the garden, so if you’re going to dedicate that much space you’ll want to reap as much fruit as you can.

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Conley Moore, a senior at Butler County High School, is the new Miss SOKY Fair. Conley is the daughter Greg and Chasity Moore of Morgantown. No stranger to pageants, Conley also holds other titles such as 2020 Calendar Girl and Miss GRCF.

During the summer, our chances of tick interactions increase. Most tick bites are an itchy nuisance that last between seven to 10 days, but ticks can also transmit diseases such as Lyme disease and erlichiosis, a bacterial disease. A relatively new tick-borne illnesses that is increasingly attracting attention is Alpha-gal syndrome.

When Marilyn Gidcumb Konstanty decided to put her memories of growing up in Butler County on the written page, she waivered between making it a work of fiction or a straight-forward memoir.  Luckily for her readers, she went with memoir.  Her book MAKING A LIVING: A MEMOIR OF A RURAL KENTUCKY GIRL, tracks her life in rural Butler County from 1950 (her birth) to 1968 (her graduation from high school), with revisits from 2014 to 2018.  It is an honest look at the daily struggles farm families of that time faced.

In June 2000 Mark Hood took on a new business project when he purchased what is now known as Hood’s Market.  Mark, son of the late Bill and Regina Hood, was no stranger to running a local business for the people of Butler County. Over the past 20 years the little market on the corner of Sawmill Road and Hwy 231, has been through some major renovations. 

I'm writing this in the hopes of helping someone else and emphasizing that "Compassion is a Choice. "

December 2017, Dr. Matthew Rutter, Oncologist, walked in the room and told me I had prostate cancer, but it was treatable, I would not die from it.

Ernest Lee, son of Jeff and Lisa Lee of Morgantown, KY has been named to the Dean's List  at Georgetown College.  The Dean's List is made up of students earning a 3.7 GPA or higher with twelve college credits or more.  Ernest, a 2018 graduate of Butler County High School has just completed his first year at Georgetown after transferring from WKU.   Ernest is majoring in Political Science.