By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 — Tuesday’s Bardstown City Council meeting began with Mayor Dick Heaton and the council expressing its appreciation to Bardstown Police Detective Eric Williamson for the work he put into the recent human trafficking and prostitution arrests at two local Asian spas. Williamson explained […]
By JIMMY HIGDON14th District State Senator Saturday, Feb. 10, 2023 — Lawmakers returned to Frankfort on Tuesday to reconvene following a constitutionally required break in the 2023 30-day legislative session. We immediately got back to work, passing House Bill 1, which codifies the income tax reduction from 5 percent to 4.5 percent that went into […]
To the editor, I opened in the Nelson County Gazette what I thought was going to be a news report on the Nelson County school board meeting of Feb. 9, 2023, but the news report very quickly turned into an editorial. The article started off very factual up until it got to the part that […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, — The Nelson County Board of Education held a special-called meeting Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, in order to approve construction bonds for the Thomas Nelson High School community campus project. However, board chair Diane Berry adjourned the meeting moments after it began — the displeasure […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded to Bryson Drive for a report of shots fired on Wednesday night at about 10:17 p.m. Deputies arrived at the home and discovered a woman, Pamela Lindsey, 72, in the garage with a gunshot wound to the back, […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 — The Nelson County Board of Education called a special meeting for Thursday, but the meeting ended just as it was getting started. Board chair Diane Berry opened the meeting with the usual Pledge of Allegiance, then advised she was adjourning the meeting. […]
By CANDY MASSARONI50th District State Representative Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, — For most Kentuckians, the reliability of our energy supply is not something we think about too often. We flip a switch or press a button and the lights come on the temperature changes in our homes and offices. That confidence is waning, however, as […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 — Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall gave his report to Nelson Fiscal Court. The discussion touched on the jail’s commissary fund, which one magistrate called the jailer’s “slush fund.” It was disclosed that state law says the commissary fund proceeds stay at the jail to improve […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 — Nelson Fiscal Court discussed the purchase of new voting machines at their meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Nelson County Clerk Jeanette Hall Sidebottom and a representative from HARP Enterprises answered questions about the new machines. A local resident asked if the court could […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 (updated Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023) — On Wednesday, the Bardstown Police Department arrested three people in the wake of a human trafficking investigation at two Bardstown Asian spas. City police officers executed search warrants at Mi Ya Ko Spa, 624 N. Third St, and Sunrise […]
