Butler County Banner-Republican

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Butler County Banner-Republican
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s)Jobe Publishing, Inc.
PublisherJeffery S. Jobe
EditorLynzie Embry Jones
Founded1885 (as the Green River Republican)
November 1982 (first edition of the Butler County Banner)
Headquarters Morgantown, Kentucky
Circulation 5,037 [1]
Website jpinews.com

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.

Contents

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 . [2] 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, [3] 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, [4] making Butler County one of the 36 counties in Kentucky served locally by two newspapers at that time.

The rivalry between the Republican and the Banner heralded stiff competition between the two newspapers. In 1985, the staff of both newspapers debated over which paper should have the rights to legal classifieds [5] The Banner won the rights to legal advertisements at Butler County Fiscal Court in November 1991. [6]

The rivalry between the two newspapers lasted for more than nine years until 1992, when the Givenses purchased the Republican from Hartford-based Andy Anderson Corporation. Following that purchase, the Green River Republican published its final edition in the week of June 24, 1992. The following week, the two newspapers were consolidated as the once-a-week Butler County Banner-Green River Republican. [4]

Jobe Publishing acquired the Banner-Republican in February 1998. This purchase also marked Jobe's debut as a newspaper publisher. [7] [8] In 2004, printing of the Banner-Republican was relocated to the Horse Cave-based Cave Country Printshop after Jobe Publishing purchased said printshop, along with the Barren County Progress , Hart County News-Herald , Metcalfe County Light , and the Monroe County Citizen . [9] The Banner-Republican was previously printed at the facilities of the Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro. [9]

Newspaper staff

Newspaper staff as of March 2019

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References

  1. ↑ Kentucky Press Association - Butler County Banner (info) Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Home". jpinews.com.
  3. ↑ Butler County Banner-Republican, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, Front Page. This is the slogan for the Banner-Republican.
  4. 1 2 "Butler's Green River Republican, newspaper since 1885, closes". Park City Daily News . June 26, 1992. p. 3A – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Butler County newspapers vie for legal ads". Park City Daily News . January 21, 1985. p. 6 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "Banner wins advertising decision; GRR plans to fight ruling". Park City Daily News. November 20, 1991. p. 2A – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Jobe Publishing, Inc., About Us
  8. ↑ "Butler County's weekly newspaper is sold". Park City Daily News . February 17, 1998. p. 5A – via Google Books.
  9. 1 2 "Butler's Jobe Publishing purchased four papers, print shop.owned by Cave Country". Park City Daily News. August 15, 2004. p. 5A.
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