NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Aug. 22, 2016 — Nineteen students from Nelson County have been named Sen. Jeff Green Scholars by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA). To earn this honor, a student must have a 4.0 grade point average each year of high school and at least a 28 […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, 5:30 p.m. – The Bardstown City Schools Board of Education conducted a public hearing in regard to the proposed 2016 city schools property tax rates. Running time: about 8:36. -30- Please follow and like us:
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, 2 p.m. — Bardstown City Schools board of education candidate Donna Molyneaux commended the city school board Tuesday night for approving a lower property tax revenue increase than it originally proposed. In a 4-1 vote Tuesday, the board approved setting the 2016 […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, 9 p.m. — The Nelson County Board of Education honored volunteers from the Bardstown Lowe’s for their participation in the Lowe’s Heroes program. In June, approximately 16 Lowe’s volunteers donated 408 hours over a three-day period at the Cox’s Creek Elementary School […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, 9 p.m. — The old Cox’s Creek Elementary school building — the former home of the Bardstown City School district’s alternative school program — has been appraised and once the district gets state approval, will be put up for sale. Joey […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, 3 p.m. — In a surprise move Tuesday, the Bardstown Board of Education approved a school tax rate lower than was initially proposed earlier this month. The new rate creates 3 percent of additional tax revenue over last year’s rate, which […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, 8 p.m. — The Bardstown City Schools’ public hearing regarding a property tax rate proposal that will generate a 4 percent increase in tax revenue did not attract any comment — at least inside the school district’s central office. Donna Molyneaux, […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, 9:15 a.m. — Donna Molyneaux has filed as a candidate for the five-member Bardstown Independent Schools board of education. Molyneaux, 54, a resident of Yorkshire Drive, filed Monday for one of the two non-partisan at-large city school board seats that will be on the […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, 11 p.m. — It’s bad enough that Washington, D.C.-area groups use Kentucky’s inflated high school graduation rates to make wild claims about how the commonwealth is a leader among states in handing out diplomas and closing graduation gaps between poor and better-off […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, 8:30 p.m. — Franklin Hibbs III filed Thursday to keep his seat on the Bardstown Independent Schools board of education. Hibbs, 56, is a resident of North Fourth Street and an incumbent board member who occupies one of the two at-large seats on the […]
