Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, 8:16 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called to Life Care Center of Bardstown, 120 Life Care Way, for an active fire alarm. Firefighters arrived and determined a pull station had been activated. Firefighters stayed on scene until a maintenance person could come to resent the alarm. Firefighters were dispatched […]
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, 9:55 a.m. (UPDATED 7 p.m.) — A 21-year-old Louisville man died in a two-car crash north of Flaget Memorial Hospital. Shaun R. Barlow died in the crash that happened just north of the Flaget campus. The crash closed KY 245 while first-responders worked to attend the injured and investigate the crash. The […]
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, 1:24 a.m. – Bardstown firefighters responded to a report of a woods fire near 322 Hill Street about 7:20 Tuesday evening. The caller said a group of juveniles were believed to have started the fire. The fire turned out to be a controlled burn, there was no fire. Please follow and […]
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, 1 a.m. – The Bardstown Fire Department was called to the area of 106 Dogwood Dr. for an odor investigation. The caller reported the strong smell of natural gas in the area. Firefighters reported finding a gas leak at the street shutoff valve. A representative from LG&E was asked to respond […]
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, 12:45 a.m. — A deputy sheriff who drove up on a car parked on the side of KY 245 near Templin Avenue about 3:30 Tuesday initially believed the car had mechanical problems. The officer told dispatchers that what he found instead was an elderly gentlemen who was urinating on the side […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, 11:55 p.m. — Patrick Hayden, owner of the Kentucky Gun Co./Keene’s Depot, told the Bardstown City Council Tuesday night his expansion plans for his business include a desire to keep the business inside the city limits — if a city ordinance doesn’t get in the […]
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 Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, 1:10 p.m. (Updated 5 p.m.) — Crume Drug Store is back open this afternoon after it was closed this morning when the FBI executed a search warrant at approximately 8 a.m. According to 1320 WBRT, an FBI spokesman confirmed the agency was part of an ongoing healthcare fraud investigation […]
Mary Alice Ritchie Peterson, 71, of New Haven, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, at her home. She was born Feb. 29, 1940, in Nelson County, and recently retired after 28 years with Walmart in Bardstown. She was a member of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church in New Haven. She formerly attended Bethlehem Academy and […]
Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, 12:50 a.m. — Nelson County EMS responded to the 100 block of Kentucky Avenue about 12:20 Monday morning for a woman who had taken a sleeping pill and was in an altered state of consciousness. The husband of the 72-year-old woman told first-responders his wife had taken one-half an Ambien and […]
