William ‘Phil’ Rogers, 76, of Louisville, died Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in the care of Hosparus. He was born March 22, 1938, and was raised in New Haven. He passed after a valiant struggle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He married his high school sweetheart, Lenora Boone Rogers, 55 years ago. He had a 42-year career […]
Roger Dale Kennedy, 63, of New Haven, died suddenly at his residence Monday evening June 16, 2014. He was born and raised in the Youngers Creek area by his late parents, Gilbert Walton and Margaret Inez Crady Kennedy. He was a member of the Rolling Fork Christian Church in Lyons Station. Along with his parents […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 11:55 a.m. — A Bardstown man was arrested Tuesday following a police investigation of a child abuse complaint at Flaget Memorial Hospital’s emergency room. Bardstown Police were called to the hospital ER after a two-year-old child was brought to the hospital with visible hand […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 11:40 a.m. — On Monday, six new volunteer firefighters joined the ranks of The Bardstown-Nelson County Volunteer Fire Department. BRENT LEE. Lee is a fulltime firefighter with the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Department in Louisville. ROBERT SEADLER. Seadler is also a full time PRP […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, June 17, 2014 — The Nelson County Schools Board of Education approved its 2014-15 salary schedule that includes a state-mandated 1 percent across the board increase for district employees. Tim Hockensmith, the district’s chief operating officer, explained that the district has adequate funding for the […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, June 17, 2014 — With the 2014-15 budget approved, Nelson Fiscal Court took up requests for road paving and maintenance work at its regular meeting Tuesday morning. The court approved $99,474 for Magistrate Bernard Ice’s road paving requests that include Wheeler Road from Barnes Road […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, June 17, 2014 — For the first time in three years, the Bardstown Independent Schools board of education approved a one percent pay increase for all of the district’s certified and classified employees. Superintendent Brent Hosclaw told the board he was pleased to be able […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, June 16, 2014, 7:15 p.m. — Chaplin native Jesse Simpson was named the new principal of Old Kentucky Home Middle School Monday afternoon by a unanimous vote of the school’s site-based council. The announcement was attended by several of the school’s teachers and his friends […]
Joseph “Leo” Hall, 79, of New Haven, died Sunday, June 15, 2014, at his home. He was born Feb. 4, 1935, in New Haven. He was a retired self-employed farmer and of the Catholic faith. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ross and Elizabeth Weathers Hall; two brothers, Reco Hall and Ross Hall […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, June 16, 2014, 2 p.m. — Brant Joseph Sheckles, 24, of Bardstown, pleaded guilty Friday to an amended charge of fourth-degree assault and first-degree riot in connection with an Aug. 11, 2013, incident involved Sheckles and several co-defendants in an altercation at a field party that left […]
