NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, June 6, 2016, 11 a.m. — Elizabethtown Community and Technical College’s Springfield campus is a local option for incoming freshmen and students who would have begun their sophomore year at St. Catharine College and are looking for places to continue their education. In addition to the free […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, June 1, 2016 — The St. Catharine College board of trustees voted Tuesday to approve the closure of the college effective July 31. Despite the Washington County college’s efforts to resolve its issues with the U.S. Department of Education in regard to the withholding of federal […]
Courtesy of DaveRamsey.com Saturday, May 21, 2016, 11 a.m. — You’ve dreamed of owning a home for as long as you can remember. But lately, your dream has been more like a driving force than a twinkling in the eye. Perhaps your friends are all buying homes and pressuring you to do the same. Or […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 8 p.m. — The Nelson County Board of Education approved the district’s tentative 2016-17 budget that assumes the district will receive a four percent property tax revenue increase over last fiscal year. The board reviewed the budget with Tim Hockensmith, the district’s […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 4 p.m. – The Bardstown Board of Education voted to approve a partnership with Physicians to Children and Adolescents that will create an on-site health clinic at the city school campus. Dr. Lindsay Blackmon provided the board with a short presentation about the benefits and […]
Click above to play the video of the health clinic presentation from Tuesday’s school board meeting. By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 7 p.m. (UPDATED May 18, 2016, 4:33 p.m., added video) — Beginning this fall, students in the Bardstown City Schools will have a staffed medical […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 11 p.m. — The Bardstown City Schools Board of Education held a special meeting recently to hear a presentation about “The Leader in Me,” a leadership and life skills transformation program created by the FranklinCovey Co. The values the program is […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, May 6, 2016, 11 a.m. — The tentative 2016-17 Nelson County Schools district includes the purchase of new buses, expenditures for wireless technology upgrades at district school buildings, and changes in how employees contributions to Medicare and Social Security are calculated. Tim Hockensmith, the district’s […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 10 p.m. — With two construction projects under way, the Nelson County Board of Education started looking ahead at its next project — an upgrade for the heating and cooling system at Bloomfield Middle School. At the district’s meeting Tuesday evening, Tim […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 11 p.m. — The Bardstown Board of Education approved a proposal to request funding from the Bardstown Foundation for Excellence in Education to expand the school district’s focus on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — and create the Bardstown […]
