STAFF REPORT Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, 5:40 p.m. — After a week of intermittent — and not-so-intermittent — server issues, the Nelson County Gazette website was restored to functionality late Friday. “For the second time in 18 months, the Nelson County Gazette was a victim of its own success,” Gazette editor Jim Brooks said Sunday. […]
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. […]
Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, 4:40 p.m. — A 53-year-old man operating a touring motorcycle was injured Sunday afternoon about 4 p.m. after an accident with a white Toytota pickup truck on KY49, Loretto Road, near its intersection with Balltown Road, KY 46. The driver of the white Toyota pickup truck fled the accident scene and […]
Helen Cecelia Miles, 91, formerly of Springfield and Bardstown, died Saturday Aug. 17, 2013, at Nazareth Home in Louisville. She was born Feb. 28, 1922, in Holy Cross. She formerly worked at Fast Food Mart in Springfield. She was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Manton, St. Dominic Catholic Church in Springfield, and […]
Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, 11:30 a.m. — The Rolling Fork Fire Department responded to a reported house fire in the 2800 block of Nelsonville Road at 4:17 Sunday morning. First-responders reported heavy smoke coming from the two-story home when they arrived. Mutual aid in the form of a tanker truck and manpower was requested from […]
Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, 12:30 p.m. — Nelson County deputy sheriffs responded Saturday morning about 8:13 to a call of shots fired near a home in th 2000 block of Petersburg Road in the Boston area. The caller said bullets were falling on their property from people shooting nearby. One officer noted the gunfire may […]
Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, 11 a.m. — One person was injured when the vehicle they were operating ran of the road and hit a rock wall near the intersection of US31E and Monk’s Road in Culvertown. Nelson County EMS and police were dispatched at 1:42 Saturday morning to respond to the accident. The injured driver […]
By Sen. Jimmy Higdon 14th District State Senator Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, 2 a.m. — Rarely a week passes that I don’t receive a call or an e-mail from a constituent looking for contact information on a wide range of issues, including the critically important hotline to help prevent suicide among our veterans. This past […]
Estelle McCubbin, 93, of Bardstown, died Friday, August 16, 2013, at Life Care Center of Bardstown. She was a former Bloomfield resident, a graduate of Campbellsville College, a former employee of the old Central Motor Company Auto Garage and McCubbin’s Supermarket in Bloomfield. She was a member of the Bardstown Baptist Church. She was the […]
To the Editor: On page A2, of the Aug. 7, 2013 edition of The Kentucky Standard, there was an update to the story of a local businessperson who is being sentenced for healthcare fraud. On page A12 appeared a report detailing fraud in state government at Kentucky Emergency Management (KYEM). A state audit showed (in […]
