Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, 12:35 a.m. – A 24-year-old man was transported to the hospital about 5:30 Saturday evening after he allegedly smoked a legal substance and told dispatchers he thought he was dying. Nelson County EMS responded to an address in the 400 block of Harrison Fork Road where the man had walked to […]
Janice Marie Hicks, 52, of New Hope, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident Friday night in Bardstown. She was born Feb. 26, 1959, in Nelson County and was a 25 year employee of American Greetings in Bardstown. She was preceded in death by her father, Bernard Fred Hicks, Sr., […]
Joseph Thomas “Joe” Kirtley, 84, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, with his family at his bedside. He was born August 24, 1927, in New Albany, Ind., and grew up in Bardstown. He was the valedictorian of his 1945 graduating class at St. Joe Prep, was a World War II Navy veteran and attended the University […]
STAFF REPORT Editor’s Note: The indictment of a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Thursday, Jan. 20, 2012, 11 p.m. – The following people were indicted by a Nelson County grand jury on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. They are set […]
Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, 11:32 p.m. (UPDATED Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, 11:25 a.m) — A New Hope woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a two-vehicle head-on collision late Friday night on Woodlawn Road about 3/4 of a mile from its intersection with Bloomfield Road. Janice M. Hicks, 52, died when the 2003 Chevy Corsica […]
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. […]
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, 3 p.m. — Two people were arrested Tuesday night after police investigated an anonymous tip of a possible domestic violence incident in a moving vehicle. Bardstown Police Officer Nathan Phillips located and stopped the vehicle, a gray Ford Escape, driven by Hazel S. Girdley, 57, near the intersection of North Third […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, 2 p.m. — Charter school: An autonomous public school free of many of the regulations that hinder traditional public schools from offering a superior education. National School Choice Week is Jan. 22-28. There’s little to celebrate in Kentucky – one of only nine […]
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, 1:09 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department responded to an active alarm at Flaget Memorial Hospital just after noon Thursday. Firefighters discovered burned food in an oven in the third-floor dining room activated a detector. Firefighters confirmed the activation source and cleared the scene. The alarm system had been reset by […]
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, 12:47 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called early Thursday morning to the Barton 1792 Distillery, 300 Barton Road, for an active water flow alarm indicated a fire suppression system activation. Firefighters and plant maintenance checked the area where the alarm activated and found nothing. The alarm company was called […]
