STAFF REPORT Wednesday, June 12, 2013 — The annual Fairfield Homecoming is Saturday and Sunday, June 22 & 23. Residents past and present are invited to come visit — sit a spell and talk to a friend, a neighbor, or an old acquaintance; search the yard sales; have a great meal; reminisce over the pictures and […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 9 p.m. — If you have noticed a sewer-type, sulphur-laden odor around Bardstown lately, you aren’t alone. The Bardstown Fire Department has been dispatched for odor investigations on Tuesday and again on Wednesday about 7:20 p.m. The source of the odor is a lagoon dredging […]
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. […]
Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 12:30 p.m. — The First Cedar Creek Baptist Church will be having a yard, craft, and bake sale Saturday, June 29, 2013, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the proposed expansion of the church fellowship hall. Donations for the sale are accepted. An information booth of […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 11:45 a.m. — The City of Bardstown’s proposed 2013-14 budget will include funding that will allow the department to be fully staffed. Bardstown Mayor Bill Sheckles said he would like the police department to be fully staffed at 27 funded police positions. Previous year’s budgets […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 11 a.m. — The Bardstown City Council approved unanimously second and final reading of an ordinance that will raise the rates for all Bardstown Cable TV subscribers. The cost for basic cable — channels 2-22 — will increase $2 per month. The cost for expanded […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 11:54 p.m. — Funding for the Historic Review Board administrator’s position was again a point of contention as the Bardstown City Council considered first reading of the city’s $42.5 million 2013-14 budget. Councilman Francis Lydian said there was some confusion at last week’s working session […]
Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 6:08 p.m. — A woman in her 40’s was hospitalized Tuesday after she took an overdose of a prescription medicine. Nelson County EMS and Bardstown Police were dispatched at about 5:20 p.m. to a room at the Wilson Motel, 530 North Third St., for what was described as an overdose. The woman […]
Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 6:05 p.m. — Two people were injured Tuesday evening at about 4:55 p.m. in a two-car collision on Boston Road and McCubbins Lane. A four-door Buick and a small white car were involved in the collision. Nelson County EMS transported a 50-year-old man who complained of left side and shoulder pain, […]
Carl Harrell, 73, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, June 10, 2013, at Baptist Health in Lexington. He was born Nov. 29, 1939, in Nelson County. He was a retired employee of General Electric, a lifelong farmer and a member of The First Cedar Creek Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Lavonne […]
