Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, 2 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation at this hour at a home in the 100 block of Park Circle in Melody Lake. Two deputies who responded to an earlier call in the Melody Lake community were flagged down at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday and asked […]
Shirley Ann Karr Brinner, 76, of Cox’s Creek, died Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. She was born on Feb. 23, 1937, in Bullitt County. She was a homemaker and a member of True Way Ministries. She was preceded in death by one son, Stephen Brinner; her parents, Arthur and Evelyn […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2012, 1 p.m. — A Bardstown pawn shop owner was cited by police today after allegedly buying stolen jewelry from a minor. Charles K. Porter, 51, of Barsdtown, owner of Green Baron Pawn, 106 Jones Ave., was cited for a violation of a city ordinance for buying the jewelry from […]
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 Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, 11:55 p.m. – Jim Waters, the president of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, will be the guest on Tuesday’s edition of “Brooks & Company” airing 11 to noon on 1320 WBRT, 97.1 FM and streaming live online at www.NelsonCounty Gazette.com and www.WBRT Country.com. Waters will talk about education choice and an […]
Etta Tungate Spalding, 99, of Bardstown, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. She was born on Sept. 22, 1913, in Taylor County to the late Essie and Angie Cox. She was a former employee of Bardstown Manufacturing and a member of Abundant Life Church. She was preceded in death by […]
Emily Margaret Drake, 92, of Bardstown, died Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. She was the former Emily Wigginton and a member of the Bloomfield Baptist Church where she was active in the Womens Missionary Union and quilters. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward […]
Robert M. Cecil, 89, of Bardstown, died Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstpwm. He was born Sept. 3, 1923, in Bloomfield. He was a self-employed farmer, retired from Nelson County Road Department and was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was a lifelong member of Mill Creek […]
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 Sunday, Aug. 17, 2013, 11:40 p.m. – It was only a few months before his tragic death when, in the winter of 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy traveled to eastern Kentucky to investigate one of the most poverty-stricken areas of the nation. At a time when the […]
