By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Friday, June 29, 2012, 11:30 p.m. (UPDATED June 30, 2012, 3:30 p.m.) — The Kentucky Attorney General has ruled that Bardstown Mayor Bill Sheckles and the Bardstown City Council violated the Open Meetings Act at the Jan. 24, 2012, council meeting when it entered improperly into a two-hour closed […]
Friday, June 29, 2012, 11 a.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department responded to two fire alarm calls Friday morning just minutes apart. Neither alarm was triggered by an actual fire. At 9:53 Friday morning, firefighters were called to an active fire alarm at the Old Talbott Tavern, 107 W. Stephen Foster Ave. By the time […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Thursday, June 28, 2012, 9:36 p.m. — The buildings that house Plantation Furniture and Mammy’s Kitchen, 112 and 114 North Third St., were damaged by a fire that is believed to have started in the attic of Plantation Furniture building. The fire spread to the attic of Mammy’s Kitchen. The […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Thursday, June 28, 2012, 5 p.m. (UPDATED 5:20 p.m.) — As the temperature holds steady at 99 degrees, residents of the Bloomfield area are out of power and won’t likely have their power — or air conditioning — restored until after 10 p.m. tonight. That’s the word from Chris […]
Joel Theodore Bischoff, 44, of New Haven, died Thursday, June 28, 2012. He was a Catholic by faith and a member of St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church. Survivors include his wife, Patricia Ann “Trish” Bischoff; one stepdaughter, Chelsey Ann Douglas of New Haven; one stepson, Samuel Warren Allen Douglas of New Haven; his parents, […]
Emma Elizabeth Rizer Boone, 86, of Bardstown, died June 28, 2012, at Norton Suburban Hospital in Louisville. She was born Sept. 2, 1925, in Bardstown and was a graduate from Bethlehem Academy. She was previously employed as an admitting clerk at Flaget Memorial Hospital and a hostess at the Old Talbott Tavern. She was a […]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 — The First Cedar Creek Baptist Church will mark its 231st anniversary on Wednesday, July 4, 2012. In celebration of this milestone, interested persons have been invited to visit the Bealmear-Summers Cemetery this Sunday, July 1, 2012. The cemetery is the burial site of many of pioneer founders the First Cedar Creek […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Wednesday, June 27, 2012 — The City of Bardstown’s 2012-13 budget received final approval Tuesday night by the Bardstown City Council preceded with a discussion of how the council can increase its awareness of issues that affect the city budget. At the June 12 meeting, several of the council […]
Dr. Emmett Whitford Wood, 88, died Monday, June 25, 2012 at his home in Bardstown. He was a native of Water Valley, Miss. He obtained his AB in Zoology and MS in Education at the University of Southern California and his MD at University Tennessee College of Medicine. He was elected by faculty of the […]
By DAVE RAMSEY Syndicated financial columnist Dear Dave, (This is about manhood) My son has worked and saved all through school and will be graduating this year with a degree in electrical engineering. He has a job waiting for him when he finishes, and he wants to move out on his own then. I think […]
