Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, 2:40 p.m. — A Bardstown company may face a record $507,000 fine for “shoddy recordkeeping and laboratory problems” relating to water-quality sampling downstream from its coal mines in Eastern Kentucky according to Manuel Quinones of Greenwire. Nally & Hamilton, the fourth largest coal producer of surface-mined coal in Kentucky, faces the fine onnection […]
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, 3 p.m. — Bloomfield Road was shut down for a short time Wednesday afternoon while a broken natural gas pipeline was crimped off near the intersection of Bloomfield Road and Buchannan Avenue. The Bardstown Fire Department was called after a contractor working in the area apparently broke a 1-inch gas line aboug […]
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. […]
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, 9:45 a.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded Wednesday morning to the Bardstown Water Treatment Plant, 2535 Boston Road, for a report of the apparent theft of copper welding cables. Dispatchers report that a contractor at the site is missing some welding cables and believes they may have been stolen. […]
Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, 9:30 a.m. — The drivers of two cars involved in a “t-bone” type collision were airlifted from the crash scene in front of the Nelson County Fairgrounds Wednesday morning. Two medical helicopters were called to a landing zone set up by the Bardstown Fire Department at the fairgrounds. EMS transported the […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 11:58 p.m. – With a full agenda before them, the Bardstown City Council got down to business at its meeting Tuesday night – some of it dealing with unfinished business from the past. The council was presented seven municipal orders dealing with a variety of […]
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 Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, 9 p.m. — With Halloween spookily approaching, there’s no shortage of Kentucky State Parks where you can find “things that go bump in the night.” You won’t have to travel far from home to enjoy the best Halloween entertainment Kentucky can offer. Here’s a listing of the closets parks […]
Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, 4:15 p.m. — A Maple Hill man was arrested on charges of sexual abuse and assault of a child at his home at 12:20 p.m. Monday by members of the Nelson County Special Response Team. Dan E. Atwell, 37, of Bardstown, was arrested at his Bartley Avenue home following his indictment […]
Alene Redmon, 90, died Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, at Friendship Manor inPee Wee Valley,Ky. She was native of Nelson County and a former resident of Louisville and Fairhope, Ala. She was a former employee of Wish’s Drug Store and the Blue Boar Cafeteria and was of the Baptist faith. She is preceded in death by […]
