Paul G. “Pete” Draper, Sr., 67, of Bardstown, died Friday, March 2, 2012, at his home. He was born Aug. 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.. He was a retired employee of Salt River Electric, a member of I.B.E.W., Botland Christian Church, and an avid hunter and offshore fisherman. He was preceded in death by his […]
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, March 2, 2012, 10:55 a.m. — Bardstown Police were asked to send an officer to Wendy’s restaurant, 806 North Third St., for a report of several juveniles who were outside the restaurant. The caller believed the juveniles should have been attending school. While an officer was responding, a second officer reported to dispatchers the […]
STAFF REPORT Friday, March 2, 2012, 10:40 a.m. — Nelson County and Central Kentucky have been upgraded to a high risk of severe weather this afternoon and evening. The National Weather Service reports it expects a severe weather outbreak that may include dangerous thunderstorms capable of producing large hail, cloud-to-ground lightning and tornadoes. A cold […]
Friday, March 2, 2012, 10:20 a.m. — An aircraft with a possible landing gear malfunction made a safe landing Friday morning at Samuels Field, the Bardstown-Nelson County Airport. The pilot had earlier reported by radio his instrumentation did not show the left landing gear was fully deployed and locked. “I’ve side-slipped it, I’ve bounced it […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Friday, March 2, 2012, 9 a.m. – In “Catch-22,” author Joseph Heller reports that “Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.” This had to be stopped, which Colonel […]
Iva Ray Nalley, 80, of Cedar Creek, died Thursday, March 1, 2012, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. She was a Nelson County native amd was born July 17, 1931. She was a member of the First Cedar Creek Baptist Church and retired from the Bardstown Sewing Factory after 25 years of service. She was preceded in […]
Geraldine “Jerri” Newton, 82, of Jeffersonville, Ind., died Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 at Clark Memorial Hospital, Jeffersonville. She was born Jan. 28, 1930, in Louisville and was a former homemaker and a Catholic by faith. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Derlin Newton, and her parents, Thomas and Johnnie Ester Hall. Survivors […]
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 1:40 a.m. — A Louisville man arrested early Wednesday morning for public intoxication faces additional charges after it was discovered he was in a stolen vehicle. Ricky Allen Montgomery, 31, of Louisville, was arrested by Bardstown Police after Officer Nathan Phillips responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked at […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, March 1, 2012, 12:40 a.m. — There have been four confirmed tornadoes attributed to the severe storms that rolled through Central Kentucky Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service reports it has confirmed two twisters in LaRue County and one each in Hardin and Grayson counties. HARDIN COUNTY. At 9:56 a.m. Wednesday, the […]
