Beech Tree News Network

Beech Tree News provides courthouse statistics on a regular basis.  Courthouse information provided in this article is a matter of public record.  The following records are from the Butler County Clerk and Circuit Clerk’s offices and cover July 9- 26.
Civil Cases:
Ensafe Inc. vs. Kentucky Copper, Inc.
Friendly Finance Corporation vs. Randall Maxfield
Melissa Mercer vs. Kenneth Belcher
City of Rochester vs. Jack Riley Mae Sr. and Gary Embry
Family Court
Dione M. Bowman vs. Leroy M. Bowman

With over 23 years of banking experience, Jennifer Hammer has been named the new Market President at PBI Bank in Morgantown.  The announcement was made internally early this month and Hammer is already settling into her new position.  She replaces Jarod Amos, who is now the Market President at PBI Bank Northside in Beaver Dam.  Hammer has been with PBI for over three and a half years and has worked primarily as a business development officer (loan officer).

Elizabethtown, KY (July 28, 2015) – More residents in Butler County now have access to 4G LTE, the most-advanced 4G network, on their Bluegrass Cellular mobile devices. Today, Bluegrass announced that it has expanded its 4G LTE network into the community of Round Hill.

The expansion means that customers in and around these areas will experience download speeds of up to 10 times faster than 3G, which affects everything from data speeds (i.e., streaming YouTube videos and posting Instagram pictures) to picture messaging.

Dr. Deborah T. Givens, an assistant professor of journalism in the Department of Communication at Eastern Kentucky University, was elected to a three-year term on the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors board of directors during the organization’s annual conference in June. The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, Columbia, was the site of this year's conference.
 

United Way’s Day of Caring is Wednesday, July 29, 2015.  Kiana Coleman, of Morgantown, has organized a Senior Residents Visiting Day at Morgantown Care and Rehab. According to Coleman there are several residents that have very few if any visitors. 

“What better way to show residents at MCRC we care about them than to spend some time visiting with them,” said Coleman. 

Kids on the Block took center stage at the July Chamber luncheon on Thursday, July 23^rd at the Butler County Extension Office.   The troupe of educational puppets performed an abbreviated skit of their child abuse prevention program.

LOUISVILLE (July 23, 2015) -- Kentucky Farm Bureau’s (KFB) Board of Directors met today with gubernatorial candidates Jack Conway and Matt Bevin to discuss positions on issues affecting the state’s agriculture industry.

Conway (D) and Bevin (R) fielded questions from the KFB leaders and explained their positions during the two-hour meeting at the farm organization’s state office. KFB President Mark Haney said the meeting gave the organization’s leadership and all Kentuckians an opportunity to gauge the differences between the two on key issues.

The Butler County Middle School Site-Based Decision Making Council voted unanimously earlier today - Thursday, July 23 - to select Tim Freeman as the school's new principal.  Freeman, who has been the school's assistant principal for the past three years, replaces Robert Tuck, who took a position as the middle/high school instructional supervisor for the district. 
Superintendent Scott Howard made the official announcement after the council voted to hire Freeman at a called meeting in the school's media center.  Several teachers were in attendance. 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Kentucky Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director John W. McCauley today announced that an additional 1,100 acres of agricultural land in Kentucky is eligible for funding for wildlife habitat restoration.

The Morgantown Trail Town Taskforce (MTTTF) had its third meeting on Thursday, at 6:30 pm. With the absence of the usual speaker,  Josh Givens, being necessitated by a last minute scheduling conflict, the meeting was conducted as more of an open-forum discussion led predominately by Sandy Keown.