Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, 7 p.m. — The driver of a black, late model Chevy Malibu SS with temporary tags was arrested early Saturday morning after he was reportedly driving in excess of 80 mph eastbound in the westbound lanes of the Blue Grass Parkway. Beginning about 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Nelson County Dispatch received multiple […]
Geraldine Lucille Isaacs Coulter, 84, of Louisville, died Aug. 27, 2013, in Louisville. She was the first child of Lucille Williams Isaacs of Gravel Switch and William Owen Isaacs of Louisville, and was born on Oct. 3, 1928, in Detroit, Mich. She and her husband, Leon Coulter, met at Western Kentucky University, where she was […]
David E. Greenwell, 89, of Louisville, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, in Louisville. Known affectionately as Pop or Papa, he was a devout Catholic and a member of St. Barnabas Parish where he volunteered endless hours in many different capacities throughout the years. Before he married in 1952 he was a monk at Gethsemani for […]
Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, 10:50 p.m. — Two men were hospitalized Friday evening after they were found unconscious in the picnic area at My Old Kentucky Home State Park. Nelson County EMS and Bardstown Police responded to a report of two men unconscious in the park at about 7:01 p.m. Officers at the scene reported […]
Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, 9:30 p.m. — A 59-year-old man was injured Friday night in a single-vehicle rollover accident near the intersection of Bloomfield Road and Thruway Drive. Nelson County EMS and the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the area at just before 7 p.m. The vehicle rolled multiple times and the man […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, 2 p.m. – Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson’s announcement that he would not run for governor may have political rivals breathing a sigh of relief, but what he said in his announcement leaves me scratching my own head. Abramson told the Elizabethtown Rotary Club […]
Mary Isabelle Phillips Phelps, 102, of Magnolia, formerly of Nelsonville, died Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, at her home. She was born Sept. 20, 1910 in Long Run. She was the daughter of the late Frank McGee and Mary Lee Ross Phillips. She lived in the Boston area for 54 years before moving to Magnolia to […]
Geneva Perkins DeSpain, 78, walked through the gates of Heaven Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, at Sunrise Manor Nursing Home in Hodgenville. She was born Jan. 29, 1935 in Howardstown. She was a member of Union Band Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Lewis DeSpain; her parents, Virgil Leo Perkins and […]
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. […]
Betty Bernice Pyle, 80, of Elizabethtown, died Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, at Elizabethtown Nursing and Rehab. She was born and raised in Ashland by the late Monroe and Madge Stambaugh. She was a Baptist by faith and a member of the Northside Baptist Church in Elizabethtown. She was a veteran of the U.S. Army Women’s […]
