Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, 2 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call by a mail carrier in the Nazareth Farms subdivision about 2 p.m. Saturday. The mail carrier said she observed Santa Claus driving around the neighborhood in a white Dodge truck and thought with the recent break-ins the Santa activity could […]
STAFF REPORT Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, 11 a.m. — A Bardstown woman was arrested Thursday and charged with stealing more than $14,000 from her employer, Sullivan University in Louisville. Jazi R. Sokolow, 34, a resident of Ballard Springs Drive, had been employed at Sullivan for about a year and a half in an administrative support […]
Richard Steven Gray, Sr., 50, of Anderson, Ind., died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Anderson, Ind. He was born May 14, 1961, in Marion County. He was an owner and trainer of standardbred horses. He was also a blacksmith, a woodworker and a former board member of the Indiana Horseman Association. He was preceded in death […]
Roy H. Colvin, 89, of Chaplin, died Friday, Dec. 9, 2011 at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. He was a native of Anderson County and a retired employee of General Electric. He was a member of the Chaplin Fork Baptist Churchwhere he served as a deacon and church treasurer; he recently had been attending Chaplin […]
Herbert Hoover Carney, 82, of Bardstown, died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. He was born December 29, 1928 in Washington County. He was an auctioneer in tobacco and real estate most of his life, an ordained deacon in Bloomfield Baptist Church for many years, a member of Bloomfield Masonic Lodge # 57, […]
STAFF REPORT Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, 7 a.m. — After more than 28 years of service to the community, Raffo Wimsett, executive vice president and senior lending officer at Town & Country Bank and Trust, will retire Dec. 31, 2011. Wimsett, who joined the bank in 1983 at the New Haven branch, will continue to […]
Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, 1:11 a.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called to the Nelson County Schools Early Learning Center, 1200 Cardinal Drive, at 12:56 Friday morning for an active smoke detector called in by the alarm company. A school official and firefighters inspected the school and determined the cause was a faulty detector. […]
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. […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, 2 p.m. — Dr. Seuss of the “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!” fame once concluded: “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss understands what too […]
Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, 2:09 p.m. — The New Hope Fire Department has been requested to provide mutual aid to firefighters battling a structure fire in Raywick. The fire is a structure next to Bickett’s on KY 84. Please follow and like us:
