By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, 1:30 a.m. — A news satire website has Kentucky’s defenders of Second Amendment rights up in arms. A story posted recently on The National Report website stated the Kentucky General Assembly passed a bill requiring the installation of RFID chips in all firearms in Kentucky. […]
Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, 10 a.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department and Bardstown Police responded early Saturday morning to an apparent domestic-related arson fire involving two vehicles in the 200 block of South Second Street. After arriving on scene, firefighters found both vehicles fully involved in flames with electrical lines overhead and a nearby residence […]
On Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, the Greater Hardin County Narcotics Task Force, Bardstown Police and the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office removed 400 to 500 marijuana plants from a wooded area Friday afternoon off Parkway Drive. The plants were in various stages of maturity and ranged from 3 to 15 feet tall. The estimated street value […]
STAFF REPORT Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 — U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-4) will be speaking Saturday at “Stand for Liberty,” a bipartisan grassroots event that begins at 6 p.m. Saturday at Kreso’s Restaurant in Bardstown. Massie was one of Sen. Rand Paul’s earliest grassroots supporters, and most recently was the first Kentucky congressman to speak […]
Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, 10:45 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called Friday afternoon to clean up a case of oil that fell off a truck and leaked oil in the eastbound lane of US150 at the Blue Grass Parkway interchange. A city police officer reported the spill at about 3:10 p.m. Firefighters cleaned […]
Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, 10 p.m. — A woman and an 11-year-old boy were injured Friday evening in a two-vehicle crash east of Bloomfield on Old Bloomfield Road about two miles from the old Eli Brown School. Police, Nelson County EMS and the Northeast Nelson Fire Department were dispatched to the scene at 6 p.m. […]
Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, 8:30 p.m. — The Bardstown Nelson County Volunteer Fire Department is inviting everyone to a Safety Day Open House, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 at the main Station 1 firehouse on West Broadway and North 5th Street. The Safety Day Open House is open to the public and there will be […]
Dorothy “Dolly” Patricia Sympson Greenwell, 84, of Cox’s Creek, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, at Baptist East Hospital in Louisville. She was born April 19, 1929, in Medford, Mass. She was a Jefferson State Nursing School graduate, a former employee of Green Meadows Health Care Facility and retired from Barton’s Distillery after 11 years of […]
Randy Travis Arnold, 24, of Bardstown, died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. He was born March 1, 1989, in Dubuque, Iowa. He loved his wife and children and took them to the park often. He loved Bernheim Forest, music, and was an employee for Mammy’s Kitchen. He was preceded in death by his brother, Richie A. […]
Frances Ratermann, aka Sr. Mary Xavier, 81, of Nerinx, died Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary. She was born April 28, 1932, in El Paso, Texas to the late Julius and Helen Longuemare Ratermann. She entered religious life in 1950. She earned a Master’s Degree in Music from De Paul University in […]
