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 […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, May 26, 2014, 4:30 p.m. — About one hundred people gathered around the gazebo in the Bardstown Cemetery Memorial Day morning to remember the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country. The annual event, sponsored by American Legion Posts […]
Margaret Houghlin, 97, of Bloomfield, died Sunday, May 25, 2014, at Sansbury Care Center at St. Catharine. She was the former Margaret Rogers, a native of Spencer County and was born April 13, 1917, to Oliver Merrifield and Mallye Hatchett Rogers. She and her husband founded Houghlin Funeral Home in 1951 in Bloomfield. She faithfully […]
To the editor: It was interesting to read the account of Allison Grimes’ campaign stop in Bardstown in the Sunday, May 18th edition of The Kentucky Standard. It was quite obvious that Grimes (and her small audience) accept the tired old Democratic canard that government can “create” REAL jobs as Grimes promised to “put people […]
STAFF REPORT Sunday, May 26, 2014, 3 p.m. — A 67-year-old male motorcycle rider was injured Sunday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident on Louisville Road and Hialeah Drive south of High Grove. Nelson County EMS and police were dispatched at about 2 p.m. to the accident scene. The victim complained to EMS of back pain, […]
William J. “Willie” Smith, 74, of Bardstown, died Friday, May 23, 2014, at Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital in Louisville. He was born Aug. 24, 1939, in Bardstown. He was the president of Smith Brothers Distributing in Bardstown. Smith was a distributer of Anheuser-Busch beer, a prominent business man, a 1957 graduate of St. Joe Prep […]
Arthur Bryan Spalding, 73, of Cox’s Creek, died Friday, May 23, 2014, in Louisville. He was born Dec. 9, 1940, in Cox’s Creek. He was a 1959 graduate of St. Joe Prep and was retired from Rohm & Haas Chemical Co. He was an Air Force veteran, and served as a police officer in Lexington […]
STAFF REPORT Saturday May 24, 2014, 8 p.m. — A Greer Lane woman was injured Saturday afternoon after she fell from the roof of a home. Nelson County EMS were called to a home in the 600 block of Greer Lane for a report of the women sustaining injuries after falling about 10 to 12 […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette/ WBRT Radio Saturday, May 24, 2014, 7:40 p.m. — Two teenagers were injured Saturday evening in an ATV accident on Coon Hollow Road near the New Hope community. The New Hope Fire Department and Nelson County were called to the accident site at 5:45 p.m. The teens were located […]
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 […]
