Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, 11 a.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department will be testing fire hydrants through Wednesday in the Bloomfield Road area between Wildcat Lane to US162, Old Bloomfield Road. The testing includes all the subdivisions in this area. Homeowners with questions or concerns can contact Bardstown City Hall, (502) 348-5947. -30- Please follow […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, 10:30 a.m. — A Bardstown man was arrested Saturday afternoon after he crashed his truck fleeing from police after a hit-and-run accident. Matthew B. Ballard, 28, of Bardstown, was charged with nine counts of wanton endangerment, first-degree; driving on a DUI-suspended license; reckless driving; fleeing or evading, first-degree; criminal mischief, […]
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. […]
Mary Lucille Smith, 88, of New Haven, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, at her home. She was a lifelong resident of New Haven and Culvertown area. She was the daughter of the late Louis Watson and Catherine Gertrude Spain Greenwell. She was a Catholic by faith and a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and […]
Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, 9 a.m. — Fairfield Road, KY 509, remains shut down at this writing after a tanker truck hauling distillery slop ran off the road and overturned, trapping the driver. Officials say the road may be closed for the rest of the day. Nelson County EMS, police and the Northeast Nelson Fire […]
Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, 9 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire department was called to Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, 103 Wildcat Lane at 11:41 Sunday morning for an odor investigation. Firefighters detected an unknown odor in the building and investigated to find its source. Their search led them to Fastenal, 101 Wildcat Lane, where the source […]
Sunday, Sept. 7, 2013, 1:05 p.m. — Bardsdtown Police and the Nelson County Coroner are investigating the death of a Bardstown man found dead Sunday morning in his South Rogan Drive home. At 11:08 Sunday morning, Bardstown Police were asked to conduct a welfare check at the man’s home after a call from a friend […]
Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, 1:50 a.m. — A motorcycle rider was seriously injured Saturday night about midnight in a crash that happened in the 9900 block of Boston Road. Nelson County EMS and the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded to the single-vehicle accident outside Boston. Passers-by reported the man was not breathing and they initiated […]
Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, 8 p.m. — The Bardstown City Police were called to a home in the 100 block of Caldwell Avenue for a report of a 15-year-old boy was out of control and had cut himself with a knife. The youth was reportedly locked in a bedroom with the knife by the time […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, 10:30 a.m. — It’s no secret that Frankfort’s bureaucratic bean counters possess quite the penchant for manipulating socioeconomic data to make their preferred agency’s performance appear as rosy as possible. Within the sphere of Kentucky’s six retirement funds, this fact is all the […]
