Charles Edward McDonald, 77, of Bardstown died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. He was born Dec. 16, 1933, in Fredericktown. He was a US Army veteran and graduated from Mercer University College of Pharmacy. He was a retired pharmacist from Walgreens Drug Store in Lexington and was a member of St. Joseph […]
Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, 11:30 a.m. — There will be an organizational meeting of the Bardstown/Nelson County Tea Party at 6 p.m.. Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, at B.J.’s Bar & Grill, 201 Camptown Rd. in Bardstown. The guest speaker will be Wendy Caswell, president and organizer of the Louisville Tea Party, whicht held its first […]
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. […]
Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, 10:01 a.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded to an injury accident on KY 245 about one mile from the Bullitt County line. Police and Nelson County EMS were dispatched after an accident involving an SUV and a tractor-trailer rig was reported about 9:35 Friday morning. One person was injured […]
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, 9 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department and Nelson County EMS were called to the bottom of Helsinki Hill on New Haven Road for a report of a vehicle off the roadway, down an embankment, in the creek and possibly under water. The Nelson County EMA dive team was placed on standby […]
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, 8:58 p.m. — Bardstown Police were called to Walmart to meet with a man who said he gave a hitchhiker a ride and the hitchhiker stole his car. Once the pair arrived at Walmart, the hitchhiker offered to park the man’s car for him. After the man exited the store, he said […]
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, 8: 45 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department, Nelson County EMS and police responded to Louisville Road at High Grove for a two-vehicle injury accident with entrapment. Firefighters had to open the door to get one of the patients out of the vehicle. One person was taken by Nelson County EMS […]
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, 6:14 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department responded to a reported dumpster fire in the parking lot across from 104 North Fourth Street. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire. They were on the scene for approximately 15 minutes. -30- Please follow and like us:
Doris Laverne Smith, 75, of Bardstown, died Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. She was the former Doris Laverne Noel, a native of Washington County, a former secretary at WBRT, a retired accountant at Nukote, and a member of the Cox’s Creek Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy SOMEWHERE IN THE BACKFIELD, Ky. – The day Gov. Steve Beshear took office, Kentucky’s unemployment rate was 5.6 percent. In September it was 9.7 percent, higher than the August rate and way higher than the 9.1 percent of all Americans reportedly out of work but still looking. […]
