Beech Tree News Network

The Annual Boys & Girls Club Radio auction raised $8,500 for the club on Saturday.  The auction was hosted by Morgantown Bank & Trust and WLBQ 1570 Beech Tree Radio. 

“We are very pleased with the auction and I want to thank everyone involved and the people that called in to bid,” said Debra Hall, Club Director. “The money will support the day to day operations of the Club.”

Two Butler County middle school students, Katherine Rice and Taya Strasburger, were among the nine students selected from across the state to display their agriculture science projects at this week’s Kentucky Farm Bureau annual meeting in Louisville.

Rice, an eighth grade student, and Strasburger, a seventh grader, both attend Butler County Middle School in Morgantown. Their project, was entitled and explored the “Most Common Horse Diseases and Their Prevention.”

The Morgantown Planning and Zoning Commission held their regular meeting on Tuesday, December 4, at the Eva J. Hawes Agriculture Exposition and Community Center Building.  Planning and Zoning Administrator, Glendal Deweese, as well as members Danny Cardwell, Patty Craig, Hobart Flener Jr., and Bryan Locke were in attendance.  The agenda was presented and approved and the minutes from the November 13, 2012 meeting were read and approved.

The Butler County Fiscal Court held a special called meeting on Tuesday evening in the auxiliary courtroom behind the Judge-Executive’s office in the courthouse. All members were present along with County Attorney Dick Deye and a visitor.

The first item on the agenda was payments from the Litter Abatement Program. Receiving payments were; BCHS Future Farmers of America-$600, Boy Scouts Troop #537-$600, 5th District Volunteer Fire Department-$600, Provo Rural Development-$643, and Cub Scout Pack#537-$612.50.

One of the largest Christmas parades was held on Saturday. The streets were lined three to four people deep all along the parade route. Children went home with their sack full of candy and Santa came to Morgantown. Parade Winners were:

Church Floats: 1st place Morgantown Church of Christ, 2nd White Ridge Church, 3rd Cornerstone Church

Business Floats: 1st Blackhawk Composites, 2nd Morgantown Bank & Trust, 3rd Country Fine Swine

Non-Profit Floats: 1st Boy Scouts Pack 208, 2nd Butler County Girl Scouts, 3rd Butler County FFA

A single-vehicle accident took place earlier today and may have been caused by slick road conditions.  According to sources, a car collided with a tractor trailer in the southbound lane on the William Natcher Parkway near the Cool Springs bridge overpass in Butler County. No injuries were reported. Responding agencies included the Butler County Sheriff's Department, Butler County EMS and Rescue Squad. More information will be posted as it becomes available. 

“We try to get people together as a community. One of the most thrilling things that happens is the festival of trees. The people who come here are really in the spirit of Christmas when they come in here and set up these trees for your pleasure.”  Those were the words of Geoffrey Henderson, Butler County Education Preservation Society President as he kicked off the 2012 Festival of trees dinner Friday night at the Cousin Don building on the square in Morgantown.

At its November 28, 2012 meeting, the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance unanimously re-elected Craig C. Dilger to serve as its Chairman, marking an unprecedented sixth consecutive term for the Louisville attorney.
Registry member David R. Martin was re-elected as Vice-Chairman.  Martin was elected to serve five (5) terms as Butler County Judge Executive, and then retired to accept the position of Executive Director of the Kentucky County Judge Executives Association, serving from 2000 to 2003 in that capacity.

UPDATE: Peter Patel, the injuried clerk, is home from the hospital and recovering. He is expected to return to work soon.

Shortly after midnight Travis Price went into Jumping Jack’s, located at 2350 Bowling Green Road, to get something to drink and apparently spoiled an attempted robbery. Finding nobody at the counter and sounds of a fight coming from the office, Price went to investigate. 

A Butler County woman was sent to the hospital for treatment following a single-vehicle accident. Nicole Green, of Morgantown, was traveling on KY 70 Brownsville Road when she lost control of her 2002 Ford F-150 pick-up causing the truck to flip. She was transported by Butler County EMS to the Medical Center at Bowling Green for the treatment of her injuries. Green is charged with failure to provide proof of insurance, driving with expired tags, and driving with an expired operators license.