Lori’s Roadhouse brings national Nashville acts, local entertainment to region
WEST CHESTER TWP. — If Lori’s Roadhouse customers were impressed the first two weeks, just wait, said Greg Fisher, one of the three business partners of the Butler County entertainment/dining destination.
“We’re about to blow this town away,” said Fisher, 54, a 1985 Hamilton High School graduate. “We’re just getting started.”
Fisher, his wife, Lori, whom the business is named after, and Tyler Wogenstahl opened Lori’s Roadhouse, a venue with two stages, a full kitchen and bar, in the Union Center Pavilion Shopping Center in West Chester last month.
93-year-old named Butler County Veteran of the Year
Credit: Nick Graham
Credit: Nick Graham
U.S. Air Force Lt. Barney Landry “stood out” among the other worthy nominees for Butler County Veteran of Year because of his five-and-a-half decades of continuous service to his country and his community.
The 93-year-old Fairfield Twp. resident will be honored twice today, first at the annual Butler County Veterans Service Commission ceremony at the Colligan Lodge in Hamilton and later when the township recognizes him as being “the most generous contributor to date for the Veterans Memorial Project.” He donated $25,500 to the memorial project, with an additional $10,000 previously matched by General Electric.
BCVSC Executive Director Mike Farmer told the Journal-News they received five nominations for the award and all were worthy but Landry was special.
Man who beat another to death at Middletown bar gets life sentence
A Middletown man pleaded guilty today in Butler County Common Pleas Court to murder for the beating death of a man in a Middletown bar last winter.
Brian Ingram, 52, was indicted in March for punching and kicking a patron, Phillip Taulbee, on Feb. 25 at Billy T’s on Tytus Avenue.
Taulbee, 56, of Middletown, died a day after the incident at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.
Veterans honored during Butler County ceremony in Hamilton
Credit: NICK GRAHAM / STAFF
Credit: NICK GRAHAM / STAFF
All Butler County veterans got a tangible token of appreciation during the annual Butler County Veterans Service Commission Veterans Day celebration and the Vet of the Year received special accolades.
During the height of the pandemic last year only 20 people were allowed in the Colligan Lodge at Veterans Park in Hamilton, this year the place was packed with nearly three times that. New this year, each veteran was asked to stand during the playing of their service branch’s theme song — Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy — and they were given a challenge coin to honor their service.
BCVSC Service Officer Casey James served as the master of ceremonies for the event and emphasized the importance of the day that is reserved every year to recognize the sacrifice all service members have made.
Laser lights, 400 candles will Illuminate Hamilton on Friday
Credit: City of Hamilton submitted photo
Credit: City of Hamilton submitted photo
Four-hundred luminary candles and a laser light show will be part of an event that is expected to draw many locals to the downtown area of Hamilton.
A shop hop and local restaurants dining are features of Illuminate Hamilton, which is set for 5-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12. The laser light show will be on the side of the Historic Butler County Courthouse.
This is the second year of Illuminate Hamilton which is one of the pieces of the overall Holly Jolly Hamilton series of more than a dozen events that stretch through November and December.
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Propeller blade off pilot’s WWII bomber moving from France museum to Middletown Historical Society
A piece of American history soon will be on display in the hometown of a Middletown pilot who lost his life during World War II.
A propeller blade on a B-17 bomber that was shot down on Dec. 20, 1942, killing 1st Lt. Daniel Winstead Corson, 27, is being transferred from a WWII museum in France to the Middletown Historical Society, said Sam Ashworth, a local historian.
The blade will be unveiled during an open house on Dec. 11, ironically the 80th anniversary of when the United States declared war on Germany. Ashworth said that date wasn’t selected because of the anniversary, but because it’s a Saturday.