By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 — The Bardstown City Council took up the problem of homeless people living on the streets and public areas around downtown Bardstown at the beginning of its meeting Tuesday night. Restaurant owner Merima Kreso told the council that homeless people living in downtown […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 (updated Friday, Sept. 8, 2023) — A Nelson County man has been charged in connection to the death of Crystal Rogers. According to WDRB, Joseph Lee Lawson, 32, was named in two sealed indictments for conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence in […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 — The Joint City-County Planning Commission has delayed taking action on the application by Luxco, the parent company of Bardstown’s Lux Row Distillers, for a 182-acre bourbon warehouse complex in the heart of the Botland community east of Bardstown The commission held a two-hour public […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 — A Bullitt County deputy jailer charged with stealing more than $25,000 from the Bullitt County jail was arrested Tuesday night and was lodged in the Nelson County Jail. According to court documents, Gene Edward Maness, 56, of Lebanon Junction, was arrested Tueday after he […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 — A Louisville man was arrested by the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday afternoon following a police chase in a stolen pickup truck that ended in a crash. At 11:23 a.m. Wednesday, Chief Deputy Brandon Bryan was on West John Rowan near its intersection with […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023 — A federal grand jury in Louisville returned an indictment July 11, 2023, that charged two Nelson County residents with conspiring to traffic in cocaine and fentanyl. According to the indictment, Neal Scott Stone, 47, and Keely Marie Logsdon, 39, both of Bardstown, were charged […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023 — At the request of Judge-Executive Tim Hutchins, Nelson Fiscal Court gave initial approval of a new property tax rate that is a full 1 cent per hundred dollars of value lower than the current property tax rate. The current tax rate is […]
By JIMMY HIGDON14th District State Senator Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023 — On Monday, America will stand in remembrance of the lives lost on September 11, 2001, in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and an open field in Pennsylvania. It’s hard to believe we are so far […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023 — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was the topic discussed during the Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023 edition of WBRT’s “Bradford & Brooks” radio show. Local Navy veteran Frank Thompson talked about the support group he has brought back following a pause due to COVID. Pastor Doug Alexander […]
By TIM HUTCHINSNelson County Judge-Executive Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 — I am humbled by the outpouring of support, friendship, and prayers that I have received in the last several days. As I stated in my press release last week, I have been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. My prognosis is good and I am confident […]
