By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Sunday, July 22, 2018 — District Energy Manager Josh Bunch told the board of education Tuesday, July 17, that having all of the district’s eligible buildings now with Energy Star ratings represented not only a significant financial savings, but a reason to be proud of […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Sunday, July 22, 2018 — Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, state education leaders in Louisiana decided to take over and rebuild the shattered New Orleans public school infrastructure using charter schools, which by their very nature are more innovative and rapidly responsive than […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, July 5, 2018 — All this fuss by feel-good liberals regarding state intervention into the day-to-day management of failing local school districts is puzzling at best and contradictory or even paradoxical at worst since theirs was the political constituency most supportive of House Bill 940 passed […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, July 2, 2018 — The Nelson County Board of Education met briefly Monday evening and voted unanimously to support a personnel decision by Superintendent Wes Bradley to demote Kimberly Brown, the district’s former director of secondary education to a teaching position. Brown was one of […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, June 25, 2018 (Corrected 7th graf) — The Nelson County Board of Education approved its Fiscal Year 2018-19 salary book that featured no pay raises for district employees. The district’s certified staff — teachers — will still receive their usual step increases. The board approved […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO Agricultural News Monday, June 25, 2018 — Dr. Clare Rittschof, a University of Kentucky assistant professor of entomology, will present a synopsis of her study of honey bee behavior at the Monday, July 2, 2018, meeting of the Washington County Beekeepers. The evening at the Washington County Extension Office, […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO Education News Monday, June 18, 2018 — Kevin Payton, former principal and assistant principal at New Haven School, has been named the new assistant principal of Bardstown Middle School. The change was announced Monday by the city school district. Payton begins his new duties as assistant principal with the 2018-19 […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO Education News Wednesday, June 13, 2018 — Elizabethtown Community and Technical College has announced the names of students who made the President’s Honor List for Spring 2018 Semester. The President’s Honor List is awarded to full-time and part-time students who are eligible based on the following criteria: Full-time degree-seeking students earning […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, June 12, 2018 — One of the most important steps in keeping bees is making sure the beehive is solidly and correctly assembled. One the surface this seems to be a pretty simple question, but once you start looking into the variety of beehive models and […]
By JIMMY HIGDON 14th District State Senator Monday, June 11, 2018 — I had the distinct pleasure to attend a dress rehearsal of The Stephen Foster Story in historic Bardstown on Friday, June 8. The talented cast was so entertaining and the night flew by. The musical is truly a great Kentucky story about the […]
