By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, 7:30 p.m. — A Bardstown man was indicted Wednesday by a Nelson County grand jury on 542 counts of possession of child pornography. Jeffrey R. Lugenbeal, 29, of Bardstown, was named in an indictment for possession of “any matter visually depicting an […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, 11 a.m. – A lack of transparency puts taxpayers who fund the government, including its secretive practices, at a distinct disadvantage from which it’s difficult to recover. So says the man widely hailed as a key architect of the imploding, incompetently named Affordable […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, 9:30 p.m. — Nelson Fiscal Court approved an agreement Tuesday with Heaven Hill Distilleries to pay an annual cash payment in lieu of state and local property taxes on the company’s new bourbon warehouses. The PILOT (payment-in-lieu of taxes) agreement means the […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Country Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, 11:45 p.m. — The Nelson County Board of Education approved a pilot program that will install GPS devices on the district’s non-school bus vehicles. Tim Hockensmith, the district’s chief operating office, told the board that the program’s goal is not find fault […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, 10:30 p.m. — The Bardstown Independent Schools board of education unanimously approved the district’s annual financial review Tuesday after a detailed presentation about the district’s 2013-14 audit. Jason Strange of Smith & Company CPAs, discussed the audit with the board and said […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, 2:45 p.m. — A 27-year-old Bardstown man was arrested Tuesday morning after police located where he was hiding by tracking his footprints in the snow. Michael A. Cotton was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property and second-degree burglary after a police investigation of […]
Joyce Smith, 78, of Bardstown, died Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. She was born Nov. 29, 1935, in Washington County. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jetson and Lillie Cheser Lyddane; one sister, Dorothy Nutgrass; and one brother, […]
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. […]
To the editor, At first, I thought better of weighing in on a matter which, frankly, shouldn’t even be up for debate—a transaction between two private companies that should receive perfunctory approval by the state. But when I read the recent letter in this newspaper from some local brewers criticizing the sale of an Owensboro […]
Elizabeth Cecelia “Sis” Dewitt, 86, of New Haven, died Nov. 16, 2014, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville after a long illness. She was born Nov. 1, 1928. She was Catholic by faith and a lifelong member of St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church in New Haven. She enjoyed playing bingo and bowling. She was preceded […]
