By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 1 p.m. — Kicking off her “Road to Fancy Farm” bus tour, Democratic senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes made her first stop Wednesday morning at the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown. In an event that took on an air and energy of […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 11:56 p.m. — Signs point to a settlement in the disagreement between the Joint City-County Planning Commission and the City of Bardstown regarding the enforcement and administration of the city’s sign ordinance. The commission’s special meeting Tuesday night was prompted by a request […]
Dorothy Prewitt, 75, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at her home. She was the former Dorothy Judd. She was born Sept. 15, 1938, in Bloomfield to the late Willie and Monnie Hahn Judd. She was a retired LPN for Flaget Hospital and was a member of Parkway Baptist Church. She was preceded in […]
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. […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, July 28, 2014, 11 p.m. — The Joint City-County Planning Commission put Mayor Bill Sheckles and the city council on notice last Thursday by hand-delivered letter the commission would no longer administer the city’s much-debated sign ordinance. The letter followed the city council’s vote last […]
The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions www.BIPPS.org Monday, July 28, 2014, 10 p.m. — Kentucky’s leading free-market think tank has released a completely written debate on school choice and charter schools featuring educators arguing both sides of the charter school dbate. The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions released the third debate in its […]
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. […]
Monday, July 28, 2014 — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating copper thefts from two Bluegrass Cellular cell towers in Nelson County. At about 10:45 Monday morning a deputy sheriff was dispatched to the cell tower in the 2300 block of New Haven Road for a report of missing copper. At 12:40 p.m. a […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, July 28, 2014 — Maple Hill resident Richard Nest filed Monday morning to run as a candidate for a seat on the Bardstown City Council. Nest ran in 2012 as a candidate for city council. In a press release issued at that time, Nest notes his experience […]
Adolph Benjamin Hilpp Jr., of Lebanon, died Saturday, July 26, 2014, at Ephraim McDowell Hospital in Danville. He was a W.W. II veteran of the U.S. Army and a member of the Marion County V.F.W. He was former co-owner of Hilpp’s Restaurant and worked as a pari-mutuel clerk at Keeneland and Churchill Downs for 45 […]
