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As members of the General Assembly are considering a budget proposal submitted by Governor Matt Bevin (House Bill 200), school leaders are trying to gauge the fiscal impact it may have on Butler County Schools. 

According to Morgantown Police Chief Giles Taylor on January 31, 2018, Morgantown City Police received a call from a concerned citizen about a suspicious car on Festival Drive. Morgantown City Police made contact with the driver Brandon Johnson and two passengers, Alicia Brown and Matthew Watts. Johnson was found with two used needles and a small baggy of methamphetamine.

A Morgantown resident has been named to the state board of pharmacy.  Joe D.

NASHVILLE, TN, January 31, 2018— Bradley Lee Jones, MBA, CMPE, RMA (AMT), Director of Revenue Cycle, Comprehensive Pain Specialists, has earned the professional designation of Certified Medical Practice Executive (CMPE) by the American College of Medical Practice Executives, the certification entity of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)

State Senator 6th District
C.B. Embry Jr. - Republican
Crystal Chappell- Democrat

State Representative 17th District
Joey Franzell- Republican
David M. Graham- Republican
Michael A. Mike Wilson- Republican

Steve Sheldon-Republican

Malcolm Cherry- Democrat

Circuit Judge 38th/2nd

Tim Coleman

Commonwealth Attorney 38th District
Blake Ross Chambers

Morgantown City Hall will soon be getting a pretty extensive facelift - one to the tune of $237,700.  That is the amount the city will be receiving through a Community Development Block Grant from the Kentucky Department of Local Government.

Louisville, KY. (January 19, 2018) – Over the last 110 years, PBI Bank has served clients across the Commonwealth to meet their personal, business, agriculture, and equine banking needs. In the first weeks of 2018, leadership at PBI Bank decided it was time to adapt the Bank’s name and visual identity to set the tone for the years to come.
 

2017 was a groundbreaking year in national and local efforts to save lives through organ donation.  In the Kentucky region, 2017 marked the second highest number of lives saved.  Thanks to 108 heroic organ donors and their families, 361 organs were recovered and transplanted.  330 tissue donors healed thousands of patients.

FRANKFORT--- Unemployment rates fell in 117 Kentucky counties, stayed the same in two (Estill and Hickman counties) and rose in one county (Bath County) between December 2016 and December 2017, according to the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.   

Butler County's unemployment rate is at 3.9 percent.