Joe Wiechert, 55, of Cox’s Creek, died Saturday, June 22, 2013, in Missouri. He was born Feb. 14, 1958, in Hempstead, N.Y. He was an Air Force veteran, a member of the Knights of Columbus, a deacon and member of St. Gregory Catholic Church. He enjoyed riding his motorcycle. See related story here. He is […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Monday, June 24, 2013, 4 p.m. — Joe Wiechert, 55, of Cox’s Creek, died Saturday afternoon in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 70 near Warrenton, Mo. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Alyssa Crawford, 19, of St. Charles, Mo., was headed west on I-70 when she lost control […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Monday, June 24, 2013, 10:45 a.m. — A Bardstown woman was arrested Tuesday, June 18, 2013, on identity-theft charges after she allegedly obtained a duplicate driver’s license of another family member and took out thousands of dollars in loans and credit cards. Amanda Lucille Swift, 25, was arrested last […]
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. […]
Freda Simpson, 91, of Bardstown, formerly of Chaplin, died Saturday, June 22, 2013, at Life Care Centers of Bardstown. She was born Jan. 20, 1922, in Nelson County. She was a retired bookkeeper for Regal Oil, the former bookkeeper of Kentucky Utilities and the Bloomfield Western Auto store. She was a homemaker and lifelong member […]
Catherine Michelle Satterly, 50, of Bardstown, died Friday, June 21, 2013, at Norton Hospital in Louisville. She was born March 28, 1963, in Bardstown, and was an employee for Lakewood Dental in Elizabethtown. She was preceded in death by her mother, Mary Evelyn Barlow. She is survived by her two sons, Michael Cole (Jana Marie) […]
STAFF REPORT Editor’s Note: The indictment of a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Friday, June 21, 2013 – The following people were indicted by a Nelson County grand jury on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. They are set for arraignment […]
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. […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, June 20, 2013, 10:45 p.m. – When Mark Twain read his (obviously) premature obituary in the New York Times, he famously quipped: “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Now more than 100 years later, some of Kentucky’s most radical environmentalists have read the tea […]
Mary Virginia “Sis” Royalty, 92, of Bardstown, died Thursday, June 20, 2013, at Flaget Memorial Hospital surrounded by her loving family and friends. She was born Nov. 30, 1920, in Nelson County. She was retired from Barton’s Distillery, and a homemaker. She loved dancing, quilting and gardening. She was a member of Barton’s Retirement Group […]
