By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 — The Bardstown Board of Education Tuesday approved without comment a new tax rate that will generate 4 percent more tax revenue than last year’s tax rate. The tax rate will increase from last year’s rate of 79.7 cents per $100 […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 — The Nelson County Gazette has filed a complaint alleging that the Nelson County Board of Education violated the Kentucky Open Meetings Act at its working session held Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, at the district’s Central Office. The complaint alleges that school board chair […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 (CORRECTED Saturday, Aug. 12) — Nelson County Schools will be closed on Monday, Aug. 21, due to possible hazards posed the solar eclipse here in Kentucky. Nelson County will not experience a total eclipse on Aug. 21, which means that anyone who looks directly […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 — The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that Missouri wrongly used its constitution’s Blaine Amendment to deny a publicly funded grant to a church-run preschool won’t directly affect growing efforts to add Kentucky to the list of states offering private school-choice programs in […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 — The Nelson County Board of Education discussed the process it will use to begin the search for a new superintendent at its working session Thursday evening. Board Chair Diane Breeding told the board that by law, the selection committee the district appoints is […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Aug. 8, 2017 — Tom Brown, the interim superintendent of Nelson County Schools, told the board Thursday that he plans to revise the management structure of the district’s Central Office. At the board’s work session, he said the Central Office’s existing structure resembled “an inverted T” that […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Saturday, July 22, 2017, 11:38 a.m. — The Nelson County Board of Education named Tom Brown to serve as interim superintendent at a special-called meeting Saturday morning. Brown’s first day on the job is Tuesday, Aug. 1st. Brown is no stranger to the Nelson County […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, July 20, 2017, 6:45 p.m. (ADDED resignation letter and new contract, 8:30 p.m.) — Anthony Orr resigned Thursday as superintendent of the Nelson County Schools at a special-called Board of Education meeting at the district’s Central Office on Wildcat Lane. Anthony Orr resignation letter His […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 5:50 p.m. — The Nelson County Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting for 5 p.m. Thursday to discuss and approve an agreement with district Superintendent Anthony Orr. At Tuesday night’s school board meeting there were rumors circulating that the board had decided […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, July 18, 2017 —Tuesday’s meeting of the Bardstown Board of Education opened with a moment of silence to honor the memory of Tariq Armour, the 18-year-old Bardstown High School graduate who had signed to play college football at Georgetown College in Kentucky. “This past Sunday […]
