Beech Tree News Network

The annual Butler County DAR Christmas Home Tour will be held Sunday, December 4, 2011 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. The cost is only $2 per home with all proceeds going to the DAR Scholarship fund. This year’s tour includes five homes, one of which is that of Pat and Kim Grubb located on Eric Young Rd off US Highway 79 South toward Russellville. This is a beautiful brick on a country lane complete with a back porch for viewing local wildlife including deer, turkey or whatever animal might be passing.

Automotive company to create 25 new jobs, invest $8.8 million:  Governor Steve Beshear today announced Daicel Safety Tube Processing, a Japanese automotive components manufacturer, will locate a new manufacturing facility in Beaver Dam, creating 25 new jobs. The $8.8 million investment represents the third Daicel plant to locate in Beaver Dam, bringing the company’s total Kentucky employment to 525.

As a follow-up to a breaking news brief initially posted late last night on the BTN News Ticker, two Butler County men are dead following a one-car accident in KY 185.  Troopers Brian McKinney, Daren Phelps, Adam Morgan and Sgt. Mitch Hampton responded to the scene and upon their arrival they found a single vehicle engulfed by fire. The preliminary investigation shows that this vehicle was southbound on KY 185 when it crossed the northbound lane and slid off of the roadway striking two trees.

Fire Departments from 5th District, 4th District, Bear Creek and Caneyville responded to a fire at 6822 Love Lee Road on Wednesday morning around 9:30am.  A neighbor called and reported the fire, believed to have started from an electrical outlet in the living room. 

A single vehicle accident on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 claimed the life of Frankie Kane Embry, 48 of Morgantown.  The accident occurred on Rochester Road Hwy/70.  Embry was traveling west bound in a Ford Explorer when he apparently lost control of the vehicle, left the road, striking a tree.  Embry was partially ejected from the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Butler County Deputy Cornor Brian McKinney at 4:33 pm.

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John Christopher Morgan (DOB 9/3/85) of 155 Belmont Church Road, Morgantown, Kentucky, was arrested on November 14, 2011.  He was charged with the following: illegal taking of wildlife, taking of wildlife from a vehicle, resident hunting deer w/o proper big game permit, resident hunting/fishing w/o license/permit/stamp, possession of firearm by convicted felon ( 2 counts) and parole violation.  Morgan was lodged in the Butler County Jail.

The Butler County Fiscal Court met in a lengthy meeting on Monday night for the regular November session.

The Butler County High School gymnasium was the site of the community Veterans’ program on Friday, November 11, 2011. Keynote speaker Captain Brian Duffy described the event best, “This community does an outstanding job of honoring your Veterans and teaching your children to do the same.”