Bill Monroe had been recording and refining bluegrass music since 1945.

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Scruggs rose to prominence when Bill Monroe hired him to play in the Blue Grass Boys, one of the defining groups in the bluegrass musical genre.

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"Whoever negotiated these cuts has never struggled with the pain of watching a child with disabilities, " said Assemblyman Bill Nojay, a Monroe County Republican.

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