STAFF REPORT Monday, June 11, 2012, 4 p.m. — Jim Waters, the president of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, will be the guest on Tuesday’s edition of “Brooks & Company” airing 11 to noon on 1320 WBRT. Waters will be discussing the institute’s new report on lawmakers’ pensions, which refers to them as […]
Harold Gene Moran, 78, of Cox’s Creek, died Friday, June 8, 2012, at Norton Hospital in Louisville. He was born April 7, 1934, in Springfield. He was a graduate of Bardstown High School and was a U.S. Army veteran. He retired from Jim Beam Distillery after 35-1/2 years of service as a shipping supervisor. He was […]
Thomas Patrick “Pat” Werner, 75, of Bardstown, died Friday, June 8, 2012, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. He was born March 17, 1937, in New Haven. He was a retired employee of Heaven Hill Distillery, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his […]
Mary Jan Paddock, 80, of Bardstown, died Friday, June 8, 2012, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. She was born April 8, 1932, in Dardanelle, Ark., and was a former resident of Fort Smith, Ark. who and moved to Bardstown in 2008. She retired from Bank One in Rockford, Ill., after 15 years of service […]
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – A new report by the Bluegrass Institute, Kentucky’s free-market think tank, holds state legislators primarily responsible for the commonwealth’s public-pension crisis, noting that politicians of both parties have demonstrated “flat-out greed and disrespect for the public treasury” by adding benefits for political gain and enriching themselves at taxpayers’ expense. “Defenders of the […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, June 11, 2012, 11:45 a.m. — The Nelson County Gazette was back online Sunday evening after an outage that began about noon Thursday. The Gazette’s hosting company blocked access to the website after the traffic levels the Gazette was getting began causing degrading the performance of the company’s servers. FatCow, the Gazette’s […]
Friday, June 7, 2012, 11:41 a.m. — Bardstown Police were asked to respond to the area of Kroger’s for two cows that were seen roaming the area about 11:40 Friday morning. The cows apparently escaped from a nearby veterinarian’s office. Police helped locate the cows and assisted in their recovery. Officers were on scene for […]
Thomas Patrick “Pat” Werner, 75, of Bardstown, died Friday, June 8, 2012, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. He was born March 17, 1937, in New Haven. He was a retired employee of Heaven Hill Distillery, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 5:45 p.m. — The Kentucky Attorney General has ruled that the City of Bardstown committed a procedural violation of the Open Records Act when it failed to produce records requested by Bardstown resident Kevin Brumley, and then failed to provide an explanation of the cause […]
Donnie Peake, 48, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, June 5, 2012. at his home. He was born July 9, 1963, in Bardstown. He was a former employee of Intertec and a member of Mill Creek Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Leo and Ann Peake and one brother, Johnny Peake. He is […]
