STAFF REPORT Editor’s Note: The Nelson County Gazette believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail. The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the jail. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. […]
STAFF REPORT Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 – With Tunisia’s overthrow of its autocratic regime and Egypt on the brink of deposing President Hosni Mubarak, what will fill the vacuum of power left by the departing leaders? Gazette Editor Jim Brooks bellieves that this is an important crossroad for stability in the Arab world — and […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, 10 a.m. — Nelson County and portions of North Central Kentucky are now under a Freezing Rain Advisory until Noon Monday. A strong winter storm will form today and deposit ice and snow across the Midwest. Though the storm will track generally north of the Ohio River, the National Weather […]
Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, 4:15 p.m. — City police were called to assist an off-duty Kentucky State Police trooper who confronted a group of suspicious-looking young males who were looking inside cars parked in the Dollar General Market parking lot. The trooper had the subjects on the ground when he called for backup. One of […]
Jan. 29, 2011, 6:55 p.m. — City police were dispatched to the Old Kentucky Home Middle School for a report that a woman who was asked to leave a basketball game may cause problems when the game is over. Please follow and like us:
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, 10 p.m. – Despite a few tense moments when an antenna connection failed, Foster Heights Elementary students were successful in their bid to talk to an astronaut aboard the orbiting International Space Station. Fourteen students spent nearly 10 minutes asking U.S. astronaut Cady Coleman questions […]
Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, 8:10 a.m. — Students who are part of the Kentucky Space Science Academy at the Nelson County Area Technology Center in Bardstown will be using their Amateur Radio station this morning to allow elementary school students talk to an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS). Students from Foster Heights Elementary […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, 2 p.m. — The most versatile and most-used electronic device I own isn’t my PC, but my iPhone. The iPhone and its countless applications give the handheld device the power of a laptop computer with even greater versatility. It’s popularity — and success — is […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, 12:45 p.m. — Nelson County’s unemployment rose 1 percent between December 2009 and December 2010 according to figures released today by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training. Nelson County’s unemployment rate in December 2009 stood at 11 percent, compared to 12 percent in December […]
STAFF REPORT Editor’s Note: The Nelson County Gazette believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail. The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the jail. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. […]
