By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 — Nelson Fiscal Court held the first reading on an ordinance that would prevent the homeless from camping overnight on county-owned public property. The ordinance is essentially the same as an ordinance recently approved by the City of Bardstown that prohibits camping overnight […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 — A number of the residents of the Edgewood subdivision attended Tuesday night’s Bardstown City Council meeting to complain about the smell of the city’s Gilkey Run sewer plant. “We’re really struggling in the neighborhood with the terrible smell,” Victoria Clark told the […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Monday, Oct. 9, 2023 — The outbreak of hostilities in Israel following Saturday’s attacks my Hamas militants left a group of Nelson County residents temporarily stranded in Israel with no way to leave. Following Saturday’s deadly attacks in Israel by Hamas, Israel closed its airports to incoming and outgoing […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 — Prosecutors revealed Thursday in Nelson Circuit Court that they may have the firearm used to murder Tommy Ballard in their possession. Shane Young, the special prosecutor from Hardin County, told Circuit Judge Charles Simms III on Thursday’s court hearing for Brooks Houck, that they […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 — With a crush of state and national media in attendance physically and electronically, the man charged with the murder of Crystal Rogers entered a not guilty plea Thursday afternoon via video teleconference in Nelson Circuit Court. Appearing from the Hardin County Detention […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023 — Richard Samuel Gray Jr., 33, was found guilty of the murder his 33-year-old girlfriend, Tabitha Murray, in February 2022 at her Bardstown home. On Tuesday, a Nelson County jury found Gray guilty of murder as well as unlawful imprisonment, second-degree. The jury recommended Gray […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2023 (updated) — Brooks William Houck, 41, of Bardstown, was arrested Wednesday morning by the FBI and was charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Crystal Rogers, who disappeared in July 2015. He was also charged with one count of tampering with physical evidence. He was […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 — The Bardstown City Council gave its initial approval to a 90-day moratorium on applications for new short-term rentals and bed-and-breakfasts in the city limits. The move comes at the request of the Joint City-County Planning Commission and the Bardstown Board of Adjustments, […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023 — The Bardstown City Council approved an ordinance that prohibits camping on city-owned public property at its meeting Tuesday night. The ordinance is designed to allow police to remove the homeless from staying overnight on city property, like the Farmer’s Market pavillion. Before […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023 — The Joint City-County Planning Commission will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, to continue their review of the application and evidence submitted by Luxco Inc. to build distilled spirits storage warehouses on a 182-acre tract in the Botland community east of Bardstown. […]
