STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 2 p.m. — Change is in store for a longtime Bardstown financial institution following the announcement that First Federal Savings Bank of Elizabethtown is being acquired by Community Bank Shares of Indiana, the holding company for Your Community Bank. The $18 million dollar deal announced Tuesday means all of […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 12:45 p.m. (UPDATED 4 p.m.) — The Kentucky State Police are investigating the deaths of two people in the Botland community at a home at 5120 Springfield Road, but remain unsure if the incident is a double murder or a murder-suicide. At about 10:30 Tuesday morning, Nelson County Dispatch […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 10:15 a.m. — A Lexington man was arrested on drug-related and other charges Monday night after a Bardstown Police officer’s routine traffic stop on the Bluegrass Parkway. Brandon W. Bishop, 26, was arrested on an outstanding probation violation warrant after he was stopped in a 2007 Ford Focus about […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 22, 2014 — Police say that it was Jill Lundy, the Bardstown woman who allegedly shot her husband Monday morning, who called 911 to report the incident to police. According to a press release from the Nelson County Sheriff’s Department, Lundy, 30, told police her husband, Mark Lundy, 34, was being transported […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, May 22, 2014 — Today’s “Brooks & Company” show will be a special “Open Lines Tuesday,” where listeners can call in and sound off about what’s on their mind. Taxes too high? Gas prices got you down? Tune in 11 to noon today and join the show! Host Jim Brooks will take […]
Betty Lou Masterson, 70, of New Hope, died Monday, April 21, 2014, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. She was a native of New Hope and a life-long member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. She retired from Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont after 43 years of service. She was preceded in death by her […]
Gloria Vanoy Bright, 72, of Bradfordsville, died Friday, April 18, 2014, at her home. She was born Sept. 13, 1941, in Casey County. She was a member of the Bradfordsville Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ernest and Elnora Randolph Vanoy; and three brothers, Garland Vanoy, Boyd Vanoy and Wilbur Vanoy. […]
Margaret Horton Livers, 85, of Raywick, died Saturday, April 19, 2014, at the Village of Lebanon. She was born June 12, 1926, in Marion County. She was a retired employee of Jane & Linda Sportswear. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie R. Livers (2013); her parents, Ernest and Cordie Colvin Horton; one […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, April 21, 2014 — The Old Kentucky Home FOP Lodge 43 plans to offer a porkchop lunch this Friday as a fundraiser to support local law enforcement officers who will travel to Washington, D.C. on May 15 for the inclusion of Officer Jason Ellis on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. The […]
By JUSTIN CARWILE Guest columnist Monday, April 21, 2014, 2:20 p.m. — Our country has been led grossly astray from the principles on which it was founded. If there was one thing the Founding Fathers valued, and sought to obtain by escaping the oppression of the British, it was liberty. So much so that they […]
