STAFF REPORT Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 — The Bluegrass Pipeline and efforts to reform the state’s eminent domain law are the focus of “Brooks & Company” airing from 11 to noon Tuesday morning on WBRT 1320 AM, 97.1 FM and streaming live online. Tom FitzGerald, director of the Kentucky Resources Council, will be a special […]
Valerie A. Veech, 74, of Bardstown, died Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, at Baptist Health. She was born Dec. 22, 1939, in Louisville. She retired from the Nelson County Sheriff’s Departments. She was a 1957 graduate from Holy Rosary Academy, co-owner of Montgomery Ward Store and worked at Mago Construction. She was a volunteer for Hospice […]
Barbara Jean “Bobbie” Michael, 74, of Bardstown, died Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, at Life Care Center of Bardstown. She was born Dec. 4, 1939, in Charleston, West Va. She was a homemaker and a member of Abundant Life Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert Franklin and Gwyndolyn Geraldine Trout Crisswell; and […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, 12:10 p.m. (UPDATED 4 p.m. with new candidate filing information) — Though the deadline for the county’s nonpartisan races isn’t until 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12, several candidates for office have already filed their paperwork for city mayoral, commission and county school board races. NEW HAVEN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. […]
Bobby Gene Holt, 80, of Bardstown, died Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, at his home. He was born Dec. 14, 1933, in Springfield. He retired after 49-1/2 years as a parts technician from the former Wilson Brothers Chevrolet dealership. He was a member of Chaplin Baptist Church where he served as an assistant Sunday School superintendent, […]
Robert L. “Bob” Miles, 82, of Louisville, died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. He was born July 4, 1931, in Loretto. He worked at Belknap Inc. for 37 years and Fire King International for 7 years. He was an active member of St. Rita Catholic Church. He was a devoted […]
By MARK BALLARD Guest columnist Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, 11 p.m. — There is a push across the country, as well as here in Kentucky, to eliminate the death penalty. That would leave life without the possibility of parole as the toughest sentence that can be handed down to someone convicted of a serious crime.Depending on the […]
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 public […]
James Thomas Yaste, 80, born in Lebanon, on April 20, 1933, returned to his Heavenly Father on Feb. 20, 2014. He was a Korean War veteran and served in the 96th Field Artillery Battalion. He was a Mason and a retired employee of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company. He was an artisan and a skilled […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, 3 p.m. — Michael Bonza, 32, of Bardstown, former treasurer at American Legion Post 121, was indicted Wednesday on charges related to the reported theft of $5,000 cash, iPhones and a computer that he reported stolen from his car while it was parked at the Legion post Dec. 4, […]
