By JIMMY HIGDON 14th District State Senator Monday, March 17, 2014, 9:30 a.m. — This week we had exciting news on the high school sports front as the Bardstown Tigers basketball team got the win over Elizabethtown on Tuesday, earning a trip to the Sweet 16 tournament in Lexington. The Tigers’ first game is Thursday […]
STAFF REPORT Sunday, March 17, 2014, 11:45 p.m. — The freezing rain and sleet that fell Sunday evening turned many of the county’s roads into driving hazards. Police responded to 10 reports of non-injury and injury accidents beginning between 7 and 8 p.m. Sunday. At about 7:18 p.m., police responded a possible injury accident on […]
Sr. Charles Maureen Walker, S.L., 94, of Nerinx, died Friday, March 14, 2014, at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary. She was born Oct. 11, 1919, in Loretto. She entered religious life in 1939 and received her final vows in 1944. She graduated from A. B. Webster College, Webster, Missouri in 1951 and earned her Master’s Degree […]
STAFF REPORT Sunday, March 16, 2014, 12:30 a.m. — Nelson County law enforcement are looking for a Bullitt County Detention Center inmate who attended a funeral Saturday on furlough and never returned to jail. Police are looking for Kristen Paige Quick, 21, who was booked into the Bullitt County jail Feb. 6, 2014, on charges […]
Jessie Mae Shipp, 61, of Shepherdsville, formerly of Lebanon, died Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Louisville after an illness. She was born Nov. 16, 1952, to the late George J. “Buster” and Annie Lindsey Shannon. Besides her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Terry Shipp; two sisters, Lizzie Mae Sanders and […]
Rose Marie “Rosie” Johnson, 72, of New Haven, died Friday, March 14, 2014, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. She was born and raised in New Haven by the late Clarence Roberts Johnson Sr and Mary Finetta Hayden Johnson. She was a Catholic by faith and a member of the St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic […]
STAFF REPORT Friday, March 14, 2014 — Legislation that would allow schools in Nelson County to excuse up to 10 instructional days missed this year passed the Kentucky House today in a 82-8 vote. State Rep. David Floyd voted for the bill. House Bill 410, sponsored by Rep. John Will Stacy, D-West Liberty, would take […]
Mildred Marie Patton, 67, of Chaplin, died Friday, March 14, 2014, at her home. She was born June 1, 1946, in Spencer County. She was a retired bus driver for the Nelson County Schools, a member of Town and Country Homemakers, Worthy Matron of Eastern Star, Old Kentucky Home # 136, the Mad Dashers Quilt […]
Joseph Paul Abell, 89, of Lebanon, died Thursday, March 13, 2014, at the Village of Lebanon. He was born May 22, 1924, in Marion County. He was retired from General Electric and was a member of Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ella Jane Thomas Abell; […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Friday, March 14, 2014 — In every journalist’s career there are times when we probably each have been guilty of hearing something and not understanding the full context of the conversation. The right thing to do in these cases is to take time and question the subject about his […]
