Sonja “Nookie” Downs, 47, of Fairfield, died Wednesday, April 16, 2014, in Bloomfield. She was born Oct. 18, 1966, in Bardstown. She was a newspaper carrier for The Kentucky Standard and Louisville Courier-Journal. She was a 1985 graduate of Nelson County High School where she played softball and basketball. She was a member of Open […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, April 17, 2014, 9:35 a.m. — Sazerac, the parent company of the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, has announced it will spend $71 million for expansions at its three Kentucky distilleries. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the planned improvements at the Barton distillery include new equipment to boost production capacity along with […]
Susie Eva Gray, 94, of Bloomfield, died Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at Colonial Health and Rehab in Bardstown. She was the former Susie Bishop, a native of Nelson County, a retired dietary supervisor for Masonic Home in Louisville and was a member of the Bloomfield Second Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late […]
Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 10:40 a.m. — A woman in her 40s died Wednesday morning when the car she was driving struck a tree on Conley Avenue in Bloomfield. Nelson County EMS and the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office was called to respond to the crash scene at 7:32 a.m. The first police officer on the scene […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 10 p.m. — Funding for several Nelson County road projects are part of the $4.1 billion two-year road construction plan approved Tuesday by the Kentucky General Assembly. The new plan includes funding for construction on the northern section of US31E, the Louisville Road, from the […]
Dorothy Faye Lanham, 77, of Gravel Switch, died Sunday, April 13, 2014, at Springfield Nursing & Rehab Center. She was born Dec. 9, 1936, in Washington County. She was a retired seamstress from Jane & Linda Sportswear. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester Ray Lanham in 2011; her parents, Cecil “Mink” and […]
Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 3 p.m. – Jacob Carwile, 17, suffered serious injuries Tuesday morning when the 2001 Daewoo he was driving ran off Woodlawn Road and struck a tree. The accident happened in the 3100 block of Woodlawn Road at about 8:22 a.m. According to police, the vehicle was traveling west on Woodlawn Road […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 8:45 a.m. — Interim Boston School Principal Dana Cull was named permanently to the job of the principal by the school’s site-based council in a special meeting Monday evening. Cull, a 30-year resident of Boston, started her teaching career at Cox’s Creek Elementary School, where she taught fourth grade […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 15, 2014 — On this Tax Day edition of “Brooks & Company,” host Jim Brooks will be joined in the studio by Danielle Jones, one of the Maple Hill residents who has been instrumental in calling attention to the problems facing the neighborhood. In an email sent Monday to Mayor Bill […]
STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 15, 2014-12:02 a.m. — The Old Kentucky Home Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 43 has given its endorsement in the race for Nelson County Sheriff to Ed Mattingly. According to a lodge press release, a panel consisting of three FOP members invited the three candidates — Democrats Ed Mattingly and Brooks […]
