By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 — As expected, the Nelson County Board of Education approved the draft district facilities plan (DFP) approved Wednesday evening by the Local Planning Committee. The vote wasn’t unanimous, however. Board member Diane Berry cast the only “no” vote against approval of the DFP. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 — The Nelson County Schools have issued a response to the story published by the Nelson County Gazette on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, regarding the claims made by a letter written Bloomfield attorney Jack Seay to the Nelson County Board of Education about tonight’s special […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 — The Nelson County Schools Board of Education has scheduled a special-called meeting for 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, at Cox’ s Creek Elementary School. The special meeting is to review and approve the District Facility Plan (DFP) approved Wednesday evening by the district’s […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 — Nelson County Property Valuation Administrator Barbara Tichenor announced Tuesday she was retiring as PVA and was endorsing one of her deputy PVAs, Tracey Bonzo, as the next Nelson County PVA. Bonzo, 50, a resident of Shumate Lane, filed her candidacy paperwork Wednesday morning as […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021 — Nelson County resident Candy Hawks-Massaroni will file Wednesday, Dec. 1st, to be a Republican candidate in the May 2022 primary for 50th District state representative. In a press release, she describes herself as a U.S. Air Force veteran and a staunch constitutional conservative who […]
By CHAD MCCOY50th District State Representative Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 — As I review last week’s legislative activities, I think we are all looking forward to Thanksgiving and some time with family and friends. However, it is also a reminder that Christmas is just 36 days away, 2022 begins in 43 days, and the next […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021 — Bardstown resident Michael Todd Stratton, 53, filed Friday as a Republican candidate for Nelson County Jailer. Stratton is the second Republican to file for the office of jailer. Justin Hall of New Haven filed as a candidate for jailer on the first filing day, […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, Nov. 19, 2021 — Eric Shelburne, currently the elected magistrate representing the county’s fifth magisterial district, filed Friday afternoon as a Democrat for the office of Nelson County judge executive. The 49-year-old Bloomfield resident is completing his first term as a magistrate, and said he’s been […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 — The Nelson County Schools’ Local Planning Committee voted Wednesday night to accept the Community Campus model as its recommendation for the school district’s District Facilities Plan (DFP). The committee’s 15-to-3 vote in favor of the Community Campus model — if approved by […]
Dear Editor, Abraham Lincoln once said in a debate with Stephen A. Douglas, “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” That was on Aug. 21, 1858. Lincoln lost the Senate race to Douglas but it was the debates with Douglas that thrust him into the national spotlight […]
