Thursday, July 31, 2014, 11 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a report that a semi tractor-trailer carrying an oversized load knocked down numerous telephone and cable TV lines on Lebanon Junction Road at Boston, and along Boston Road from Boston to the area of Lick Creek Lane. Nelson County Dispatch received […]
Thursday, July 31, 10:05 p.m. — A mobile home in the 200 block of Stinson Drive was damaged by a fire at about 8 p.m. Thursday evening. The Bardstown Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a fire at that address, with possible residents still inside the home. When the fire department’s incident commander […]
Thursday, July 31, 2014, 10 p.m. — One person was burned in a vehicle fire at a home in the 4000 block of Dixie Lane off Old Nazareth Road Thursday at about 5:38 p.m. The Bardstown Fire Department, Nelson County EMS and sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a Dixie Lane home for a report of […]
Thursday, July 31, 2014, 9:45 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department was called Thursday afternoon just after 2 p.m. for a dryer on fire at 203 North Aspen. When firefighters arrived, they found a small amount of fire behind the dryer. The fire was extinguished and firefighters checked the home to be sure the fire […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, July 31, 2014, 9 p.m. — Two teenagers were injured Thursday afternoon in a single-vehicle rollover accident at the intersection of Springhill Drive and US 150, the Springfield Road. Police and Nelson County EMS were dispatched to the intersection at 1:04 p.m. after another officer drove up […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, July 24, 2014, 5 p.m. – Achievement gaps aren’t even mentioned by Martin Solomon, a retired University of Kentucky professor of business and economics who represented the opposition in the Bluegrass Institute’s recently published online debate: “Does Kentucky need charter schools?” But ignoring academic-achievement gaps […]
Margaret Ann Hummel S.L., 82, of Nerinx, died Saturday, July 26, 2014, at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary. She was born March 17, 1932, in Louisville to the late Margaret Maloney and Norbert Daniel Hummel Sr. She entered religious life in 1955 with the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy in Charleston, S.C. She […]
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 record. […]
Connie B. Combs, 69, of Shelbyville, died Monday, July 28, 2014, in Crestview Center in Shelbyville. She was born Sept. 30, 1944, in Bloomfield. She was a member of the Centenary United Methodist Church, and a member of the Shelby Chapter Order of the Eastern Star No. 170. She was the daughter of the late […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 2:30 p.m. — A second resident of Maple Hill has thrown her hat in the ring for a seat on the Bardstown City Council. Kecia Copeland, a resident of West Stephen Foster Avenue, filed Tuesday as a council candidate. Copeland’s filing is […]
