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. […]
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 5:50 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called Sunday afternoon to the 100 block of Rosewood Drive for an active fire alarm called in by the alarm company. Firefighters arrived on scene to find burned food on the stove. Firefighters used their equipment to remove smoke from the home. Crews […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Sunday, July 29, 2012 – Kentucky’s pension debt, which stands at nearly $34 billion today, is expected to reach $40 billion during the next three years. How different would our situation be today if former Gov. Wendell Ford had not decided back in 1972 that taxpayers don’t […]
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 12:33 p.m. — A motorcycle rider pulling out of a driveway on Bennett Lane was struck by a passing vehicle about 11:15 Sunday morning. The victim, described as being in his mid-40s, was found by EMTs laying on the side of the road. He was not wearing a helmet. He was […]
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 3:15 a.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a sexual assault that took place early Sunday morning in the area of New Haven Road and Ritchie Lane. At about 2:40 a.m., a woman called Nelson County Dispatch to report she was assaulted after she pulled her car off New […]
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 3:05 a.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department responded to the McLean House, 105 E. Stephen Foster, for an active fire alarm called in by an apartment resident at 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Firefighers investigated the alarm but were unable to determine why the alarm remained active. Attempts to contact the building owner […]
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 1:40 a.m. — A 51-year-old woman was transported to the hospital about 1:30 Sunday morning after she ingested an intentional overdose of medications. Bardstown Police and Nelson County EMS were called to an apartment in the 100 block of Ashberry Drive for a suicide attempt. Family members told first-responders the woman […]
Ed Warren “Buddy” Hardin, 91, of Bardstown, died Friday, July 27, 2012, at Life Care Center of Bardstown. He was born Dec. 9, 1920, in Washington County. He was a retired truck driver for Geoghegan and Mathis and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his son, Eddie Paul […]
Friday, July 27, 2012, 10:50 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called at 10:04 p.m. Friday night to the 1000 block of Caney Fork Road for a tree on fire near a home. Firefighters arrived to find there was no fire, but a power transformer serving the home had exploded. Dispatchers contacted Salt River […]
Steven Craig Boyd, 58, of Bardstown, died Friday, July 27, 2012, at Flaget Memorial Hospital after a 25 year battle with multiple sclerosis. He was born May 31, 1954, in Lancaster, Penn., and was a former delivery driver for a medical supply company. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles William and Edith […]
