- December 21, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
McLean County has lost one of its landmark businesses to a structure fire.
McLean County Locker, a butcher and custom meat-processing facility at 145 Kentucky 81 N in Calhoun, caught fire early at about 5:30 a.m. Monday morning in a spare bedroom of an apartment attached to the business.
A portion of Kentucky 81 N between Kentucky 815 and Kentucky 136 was closed for about five hours while firefighters fought the blaze.
No injuries or deaths were reported.
According to co-owner Ouida Moore, who lives in the home next to the business, the building has been in the county since the late 1930s. Moore and her family bought the building in the early 1990s. They’ve been running McLean County Locker ever since.
The business is run by Ouida Moore’s son, Chuck Moore.
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