Barren County's locally owned, locally-operated newspaper dedicated to local news by, about, and for local people. A member of the Jobe Newspaper Network.
Jobe Publishing, Inc., was established in February 1998 with the purchase of The Butler County Banner-Green River Republican in Morgantown, Ky., papers with origins dating to 1864. The company now serves communities throughout South Central Kentucky with hometown newspapers in Barren, Butler, Hart, Metcalfe and Monroe counties.
As well, JPI Publishing is a full-service web and sheet-fed book and bindery publishing company with more than 36 years of personal, business, and industrial printing experience. Niche products include tourist guides, local and regional magazines, books, and we have now grown to offer online access to our publishing products. Our operations are housed in six local offices located in the downtown business areas in the communities we serve, with a 23,000 sq. ft. production facility located on five acres in Horse Cave, Ky.
Jobe Publishing, Inc., is the fastest-growing family-owned single generation newspaper company in Kentucky. From that first single purchase in 1998, the company has grown to now owning and/or printing 15 hometown and regional newspapers, several full-color, glossy professionally-bound magazines, and has assisted in publishing more than 40 books for churches, businesses and individual authors.
The Barren County Progress newspaper, Down Home in the Barrens magazine, full printing service.
