Butler County Banner-Republican
The Butler County Banner, also known as the Butler County Banner-Green River Republican, is a weekly newspaper based in Morgantown, Kentucky, and serving Butler County in west-central Kentucky, including Morgantown, Aberdeen, Jetson, Dunbar, Huntsville, Sugar Grove, Brooklyn, Quality, Roundhill, Rochester, and Woodbury. It is a once-a-week newspaper that publishes on Wednesdays, and it is owned by Jobe Publishing, Inc. based in Horse Cave, Kentucky. This newspaper is part of Jobe Publishing's news and advertising network that also serves Allen, Barren, Cumberland, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe, Russell, and Monroe Counties in Kentucky in addition to Butler County, meaning that Jobe also publishes the Barren County Progress, Cumberland County News, Edmonson News, The Herald-News of Metcalfe County, Monroe County Citizen, The Times Journal, The Citizen-Times and the Hart County News-Herald. All of Jobe's newspapers, including the Banner, are members of the Kentucky Press Association. History The history of the Banner dates back to 1885, when the first-ever edition of its predecessor, the Green River Republican. It was the sole newspaper covering the Butler County area for about 97 years until November 1982, when Roger and Deborah Givens established the Butler County Banner as a weekly newspaper, making Butler County one of the 36