NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, April 15, 2021 — Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday that the Dant family’s Log Still Distillery, a startup reviving a historic site in southern Nelson County, expects to create 126 full-time jobs with a $24 million Phase 2 investment as they open Dant Crossing, a 300-acre campus that […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, April 1, 2021 — The Bardstown City Council voted Thursday evening to require Bardstown businessman Bill Conway to work with the city’s Historic Review Board and replace parts of the original historic windows that were removed from the home at 215 West Stephen Foster Ave. The […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, March 23, 2021 (Corrected Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 1 p.m.) — The Bardstown Cemetery’s historic gazebo will remain untouched by plans to install a columbarium to house cremated remains. Due to a misunderstanding, the Nelson County Gazette’s original story about Tuesday’s night’s Bardstown City Council meeting […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 — Nelson County Judge Executive Dean Watts made it crystal clear after winning his last election in 2018: This will be his last term at the head of county government. People who know Watts say he’s implied that me might not run for […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 –– The Bardstown City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to pursue legal action against a city restauranteur who is in violation of an agreement with the city regarding an improperly built exhaust vent. In September, the council met with Bullitt’s Winery and Bistro […]
Martha Lucille Heineken-Cummins, 95, of Noordwijk, Netherlands, formerly of New Hope, died Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 at Noordwijk. She was the widow of beer magnate Freddy Heineken She was born Oct. 29, 1925 in New Hope, and she was the daughter of a Kentucky bourbon manufacturer and was a fashion model. She met her future […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 — Local media were on hand Tuesday to witness what could only be called “a Christmas miracle” — the arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines at Flaget Memorial Hospital and the launch of vaccinations for the hospital staff. A shipment of Moderna’s COVID-19 […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 — After nearly an hour and a half of testimony and discussion, the Bardstown City Council voted unanimously to allow a Bardstown businessman time to change a pizza oven exhaust system he installed without the approval of the Historic Review Board. Last year, […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Wednesday, July 15, 2020 — The preservation of Anatok, the historic 1847 Bardstown home threatened with demolition, will be discussed today at 11 a.m. on WBRT’s “Bradford & Brooks.” Hosts Margie Bradford and Jim Brooks will be joined by members of the Anatok Preservation Committee, who are raising money […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, July 14, 2020 — The Bardstown City Council approved a $5,000 donation to the Stephen Foster Drama Association to fund the creation and operation of a Black History Advisory Council that will examine “specific elements of our shows and create supplemental content to help provide historic […]
