Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 6:40 p.m. — The driver of a pickup truck was injured Wednesday evening when his vehicle left Nelsonville Road near Boston, traveled down an embankment and crashed into a tree. The man, believed to be in his mid-50s or early 60s, was trapped in the truck and was freed after a […]
Joseph Theodore “Ted” Ballard, 85, formally of Bardstown, died Wednesday July 17, 2013, at Fullerton Gardens, Fullerton, Calif. after a prolonged illness. Born to Otho and Pearl Ballard on May 2, 1928, he was sixth of eleven children. He attended Highview Grade School and Fredericktown High School. During World War II, he worked for different […]
Margaret Celeste Brady Thompson, 93, of Lebanon, died Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at her home. She was born Sept. 15, 1919, in Marion County. She was a former housekeeper for the old St. Mary’s College. She was a Kentucky Colonel and a member of St. Charles Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her […]
Hazel Culver Sorrell, 95, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. She was born Sept. 26, 1917, in Nelson County. She was a retired employee of J.J. Newberry and a member of The First Cedar Creek Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene “Pinky” Sorrell; […]
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 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. […]
Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 2:33 a.m. — Two 17-year old boys were injured early Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle rollover crash near the Balltown community on US31E south of Bardstown near the bottom of Helsinki Hill. Nelson County EMS and police responded at 1:20 Tuesday morning to the crash scene to find one victim out […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, July 29, 2013, 10 p.m. — Due to incorrect information received by The Nelson County Gazette, the story entitled “Sen. Rand Paul: USDA regulates magician’s rabbit, require disaster plan” was not written by Sen. Paul as indicated in the byline. The story was written by Washington Post writer David Fahrenthold and was […]
Ann Denues Rogers, 52, of Glendale, died Sunday, July 21, 2013, at Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Louisville. She was a native of Lexington and a registered nurse for the Lincoln Trail Health Department in Nelson County, and a homemaker. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Allison Ann Rogers; her parents, James E. and […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Sunday, July 28, 2013 — My wife and I have been customers of Crume Drug Store for many years. And for most of those years, the routine for getting prescriptions refilled has generally been the same as it has been for any pharmacy: Stop by the pharmacy or call […]
