Saturday, June 29, 2013, 11:10 a.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called Saturday morning to a gas line break at 149 Parrish Boulevard. Responding firefighters were told someone dug into a gas line at that location, and the fire department was requested by Louisville Gas & Electric. Firefighters were called out at 10:38 a.m., […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Friday, June 28, 2013, 5 p.m. — Whether it’s failing schools, public-pension liabilities or an infinite number of other challenges plaguing the commonwealth, our nation’s poverty problem elicits one single tired solution from bigger-government apologists: throw more money at it. Note President Obama’s renewed push in […]
Ethel Harrell, 82, of Bardstown, died Wednesday, June 26, 2013, at her home. She was born May 6, 1931, in Nelson County. She was a caregiver and a member of the Catholic faith. She was preceded in death by two sons, Larry Harrell, and Terry Harrell; her parents, Lillard and Marie Bailey; one sister, Bertha […]
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. […]
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 11:55 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called Thursday morning to a structure fire in the 3800 block of Woodlawn road near the old Woodlawn store. Firefighters were called at 6:40 a.m. and found heavy flames visible from the rear of the home with heavy smoke when they arrived. Additional […]
Thursday, June 27, 2013, 9:55 p.m. — Nelson County EMS and Bardstown Police responded to a report of a possible intentional drug overdose off Pineview Drive about 2:35 Thursday morning. A caller reported a 15-year-old girl had taken an overdose of prescription medicines for insomnia and depression. The girl was transported to Flaget Memorial Hospital […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, June 27, 2013, 9:30 p.m. — The Northeast Nelson Fire Department responded Wednesday evening to the area of Greens Chapel Road for a vehicle stranded in high water. Firefighters responded at about 10:51 p.m. to the US 62 end of Greens Chapel and found two subjects in a vehicle in high water […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, June 27, 2013, 5:30 p.m. (Updated 6:30 p.m.) — Louisville media are reporting this evening that a Louisville Metro Police Department dive team today searched a pond near the Blue Grass Parkway ramp where Bardstown Police Officer Jason Ellis was murdered early in the morning of May 25. The pond the dive […]
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 Thursday, June 27, 2013, 6 a.m. — The Kentucky State Police have identified the woman’s body found alongside Interstate 65 on May 29, 2013 as that of Madiha E. Roshdy Hafzalla, 27, an Egytian native who lived in Nashville. According to Master Trooper Norman Chaffins, the body was found near the 99 mile […]
