By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, 1:40 p.m. – With their attentions locked on the ensuing football season, Kentuckians must be forgiven if they don’t become excited enough to perform an end-zone jig in response to Gov. Beshear’s recent press release trumpeting more than 100 federally funded new jobs […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, 11:30 a.m. — Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign has been accused of bribing an influential Iowa state senator to drop his endorsement of Rep. Michelle Bachmann and endorse Paul ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Documents obtained by The Iowa Republican website suggest that Iowa Sen. […]
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 JAMES SCHEEL AND ALLEN KIRKLEY Representatives of Williams & Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 — Learning that a new underground pipeline may be coming through Kentucky has some folks asking questions. What are the risks? What about my land? What about the environmental impact? These are just a few things Kentuckians […]
Mattie “Mae” Neely Samuels, 91, formerly of Louisville, died Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, in Athens, Georgia. She was born in Clark County, Georgia on Aug. 21, 1921, to James C. and Susie B. Johnson Neely. She was a retired elementary school teacher. She was a member of NEA, KTRH, JCTR, Hill First Baptist Church in […]
Maggie Naomi Bell, 67, of Louisville, formerly of Lebanon, died Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, at University Hospital. She was born March 26, 1946, in Marion County. She was a retired employee of South Central Bell Telephone Company. She was preceded in death by her parents, Harvey Alton and Goldie White Bell; four sisters, Frances Spalding, […]
Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 9:55 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department responded to the 100 block of Springhill Drive at 12:05 Tuesday afternoon for a lawnmower on fire near a residence. Firefighters found the mower was a push mower and extinguished the fire. Fire units were on scene for about 10 minutes. -30- Please follow […]
Larry Richard Hawkins Sr., 69, of Loretto, died Sunday, August 4, 2013, at Robley Rex VAMC in Louisville. He was born July 2, 1944, in Louisville. He was a retired boilermaker, owner of Hawk’s Place restaurant in Loretto and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War. He is preceded in death by his […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 5 p.m. — A 26-year-old Bardstown man was arrested Tuesday morning after the resident whose apartment he was burglarizing returned home and caught him in the act. At 10:14 a.m., Nelson County Dispatch received a 911 call from an individual in the 300 block of North Third Street who […]
Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 Dear Editor, Something wicked this way comes to Hardin County, represented by a firm that employs our Governor’s son, cloaked with smiles and promises, but ready to ooze dark miasma into our beloved Hardin County ground, water, and air by people who have no allegiance to place, or reason for being […]
