By MARK BALLARD Guest columnist Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, 10:30 a.m. — There is a new push in Congress for the minimum wage to be increased to $10.10 per hour under the guise that people making minimum wage should be able to afford a house payment, car payment, etc. Minimum wage jobs are not there […]
Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, 10 a.m. (NOTE CORRECTED DATE, 12:45 p.m.)– The annual Christmas Tour of Homes is set for 2-9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. The tour is sponsored by the Stephen Foster Music Club. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased in advance beginning Thanksgiving weekend at the Bardstown Visitor’s Center in the […]
David William Fairfax, 56, of New Haven, formerly of Bardstown, died Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, at his home in New Haven. He was born Aug. 1, 1957, in Louisville. He was the son of the late William Marvin and Rose Mary Logsdon Fairfax. He was a member of St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church in […]
Saturday Nov. 16, 2013, 12:30 p.m. — The Northeast Nelson Fire Department was called out at about 4 p.m. Friday for an odor investigation in the area of Fairfield Hill Road at the bridge near the traffic light in Bloomfield. Firefighters checked the propane tanks in the alley by the barbershop and expanded their search […]
Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, 12:20 p.m. — An 18-year-old man suffered minor injuries Friday night in a single-vehicle crash involving a Dodge Dakota pickup truck on Lebanon Junction Road just outside Boston. Nelson County EMS, police and the Boston Fire Department were dispatched to the accident scene at about 8:45 Friday night. A Boston firefighter […]
Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013, 11:55 a.m. — No one was injured in a kitchen fire at a home in the 3000 block of Boston Road at about 7:30 Friday night. Police arrived at the residence first and reported the resident had extinguished the fire. The fire had started in the oven and threatened to spread […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 — As a guy whose interests focus largely on the news media and news itself, I have watched with interest the run-up to an event that culminates today: the “March Against the Mainstream Media.” The march is a loosely organized event that presumably spans the […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, 9 p.m. — Additional candidates submitted their filing papers for local offices this week in order to be on the May 2014 primary ballot. JUDGE-EXECUTIVE. Dean Watts filed Thursday to run again as a Democrat to keep his elected office as Nelson County judge-executive. So […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 — A team of students from the Nelson County Area Technical Center recently took second-place honors at the 14th annual Kentucky Bluegrass Robotics Competition. The Nov. 9 competition pitted about a dozen teams from schools across central Kentucky against one another in a “Hunger Games”-themed […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, 5:15 p.m. — In the early days, school-choice opponents frequently got away with baseless allegations that usually carried some variation of the following theme: public charter schools and private school voucher and tax-credit programs are radical ideas that harm traditional public schools and […]
