Martha Celine Borders Beckers, 91, of Lebanon, died Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the VA Hospital in Louisville. She was born Nov. 5, 1922, in Lebanon. She was a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, a retired cafeteria manager of St. Augustine School and was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church. She was preceded […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 8:20 p.m. — The new schedule for the Fifth Region Girls’ Basketball Tournament has set. All games will be played at the Nelson County High School gym. The first two games (Nelson County vs. Caverna, E’town vs. Adair County) will be played Wednesday at 6:30 and 8 p.m. respectively. On […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 6:35 p.m. — Nelson County Schools will operate Wednesday on a two-hour delay. Preschool is canceled, though there will be childcare services open. -30- Please follow and like us:
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 2:20 p.m. — A 20-year-old Bardstown man was arrested Tuesday on rape charges stemming from an incident reported to police on Saturday, March 1. Ivan David Garcia, 20, of Bardstown has been charged with second-degree rape and first-degree sodomy after a police investigation of allegations he has sexual intercourse […]
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 […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 9 a.m. — The American Red Cross has issued an urgent appeal for blood donations. Recent bouts of inclement weather have canceled a number of important blood drives, making the need for more donations even more important. The next American Red Cross blood drive is set for 8:30 a.m. […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 1 a.m. — Hazardous road conditions were a factor in a single-vehicle rollover accident that injured three people Monday afternoon. At about 3 p.m., Nelson County EMS and the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the Blue Grass Parkway’s 14 mile marker for a report of an overturned […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, March 3, 2014, 11 p.m. — Mike Duncan, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, will be guest Tuesday morning on “Brooks & Company,” airing 11 to noon on WBRT 97.1 FM and 1320 AM. Duncan will discuss how EPA policies impact energy costs facing American families, particularly […]
Niles Clinton Gribbins, 86, of New Hope, died Monday, March 3, 2014, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. He was born Dec. 13, 1927, in Raywick. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He was preceded in death by his parents, Raymond and Jessie Spivey Gribbins; one infant daughter, Cheryl Gribbins; two sisters, Wanda Phillips and […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, March 3, 2014 12:45 p.m. — Monday night’s opening games in the 5th Region Girls Basketball Tournament have been canceled. According to Bill Broaddus, NCHS athletic director, tonight’s scheduled games — Nelson County vs. Caverna at 6:30 p.m. and Elizabethtown vs. Caverna at 8 p.m. — will be played Tuesday night. Tuesday’s games — LaRue […]
