Editor’s Note: The indictment of a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 – The following people were indicted by a Nelson County grand jury on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. They were arraigned on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, […]
Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, 10:03 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called to a new home under construction on Garden Drive at about 9:30 Friday night. Firefighters arrived to find the fire was a controlled burn of construction materials. Firefighters explained that construction materials cannot be openly burned and to avoid doing so in […]
Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, 9:35 p.m. — The Bardstown Police Department and Nelson County EMS responded Friday night about 9:25 to the 100 block of North Camp Drive for a report of teenager who drank hydrogen peroxide. First responders arrived do find a 14-year-old girl who took two or three swallows of hydrogen peroxide. She […]
Rose Coomes, 73, of Bardstown, died Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, at her home. She was the former Rose Williams and a native of Nelson County. She was the daughter of the late Lee and Nancy Bradley Williams. She was a former employee of Heaven Hill Distillery and a retired employee of Inoac Packaging Company. She […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, 11:15 a.m. — Get ready for a lot of talk on the campaign trail next year about how significant progress was made in reforming Kentucky’s bloated pensions system during this year’s legislative session. The claims will be – to put it kindly […]
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. This information is […]
STAFF REPORT Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, 1:30 a.m. — Local senior citizens from Nelson County and surrounding areas are invited to a free workshop to learn how to protect themselves from investment fraud, lending fraud, mail fraud, identity theft and scams that target seniors. The Senior Scam Jam workshop is 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. […]
Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, 11:30 p.m. — A 22-year-old woman who was an employee of American Fuji Seal died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday afternoon while in her truck in the company’s parking lot at 1051 Bloomfield Road. Bardstown Police and Nelson County EMS arrived at the scene at about 12:30 p.m. and […]
Norman “Poss” Downs, 80, of Bardstown died Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, at Life Care Center of Bardstown. He was born May 16, 1933, in Washington County. He was a retired mechanic for the Nelson County Road Department and a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, 11:30 a.m. — If you receive a phone call regarding viruses, errors or spyware on your Windows computer, be aware of a telephone scam that targets computer users and their pocketbooks. The scam starts like this: You receive a phone call from an individual with […]
