By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 – Now that the federal Environmental Protection Agency wolf has plundered the small community of Louisa in far-eastern Kentucky – the “Gem of the Big Sandy” as it is known – by shutting down its coal-fired power plant, it’s about to show up […]
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 […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, 9 p.m. – Tuesday’s “Brooks & Company” will feature special in-studio guest Scott Carney, a strategic outreach partner for the Williams pipeline company, one of the partners in the Bluegrass Pipeline, who will talk about the project with host Jim Brooks. The proposed Bluegrass Pipeline will […]
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 […]
Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, 6:20 p.m. — The driver of a truck hauling a trailer was injured Monday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident in the eastbound lanes of the Blue Grass Parkway. The accident was reported at about 4:48 p.m. The victim was first helped by drivers who stopped to offer assistance, an eyewitness reported. […]
Harry J. Shapira, 66, of Louisville, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, after a 10 year battle with cancer. Shapira was the executive vice president of Heaven Hill Distilleries Inc., who helped oversee the country’s largest, family-owned and operated producer and marketer of distilled spirits–a business founded after Prohibition. As one of Heaven Hill’s senior executives, […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 — News that a two-bottle special edition of Kentucky Bourbon sold over the weekend for $10,115 prompts one to ask: “Which Kentucky distiller produced it?” The answer? Nearly all of them. The two-bottle, one-of-a-kind set was created by Heaven Hill Master Distiller Emeritus Parker Beam […]
STAFF REPORT Oct. 13, 2013, 10:45 p.m. — A Hodgenville man died early Sunday morning in an altercation with police who were attempting to warrants on the man at his apartment. A Kentucky State Police Post 4 press release states at about 2 a.m. Sunday Hodgenville Police officers were attempting to serve arrest warrants at […]
William H. “Bill” Binkley Sr., 75, of Bardstown, died Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. He was born Oct. 2, 1938, in Corydon, Ind. He was owner of Sealtest Distributorship, Glenway Trucking, and Binkley Rental. He was a member of Bardstown United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, […]
Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, 6:30 p.m. — The New Hope Fire Department responded Saturday evening at 5:30 p.m. to a garage fire reported in the 100 block of Poplar Circle in the Melody Lake community. The fire department requested mutual aid from the Rolling Fork Fire Department to assist with a tanker and manpower. At […]
