NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, 9:30 a.m. — Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin was named the 2015 Kentucky Police Chief of the Year Wednesday night by the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police. McCubbin received the award Wednesday night at the annual KACP training conference banquet in at the […]
Community News Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 — The First Cedar Creek Baptist Church will have former pastor Bro. Walter “Wally” Mantooth preaching Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, for both the 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. services. Current pastor Bro. Tim Lucas is on vacation. All are invited to attend these services as well as all activities […]
Chelcey B. Smith Sr., 86, of Lebanon Junction, died Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, at the VA Hospital in Louisville. He was a retired business owner and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the McNeil Masonic Lodge. He was a member of the Bullitt […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, 10 p.m. — An Elizabethtown town man died in a single-vehicle accident Wednesday evening on Wilson Creek Road about half a mile from its intersection with Boston Road, U.S. 62. At 5:13 p.m., Nelson County EMS, police and the Boston Fire Department were called for […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, 9:35 a.m.– The Nelson County Fire Department responded Tuesday night at 8:56 p.m. for a possible attic fire at a home in the 1500 block of Stonehouse Road. The first firefighter on the scene reported visible smoke and flames in the attic area. Firefighters […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, 9:30 a.m. — The thunderstorms that brought torrential rain, hail and lightning through Nelson County Tuesday evening temporarily overwhelmed the city’s storm drains and flooded several city streets and the lightning strikes prompted several fire department runs. At 7:10 p.m., the Nelson County Fire […]
William Seibert “Billy” Sympson Sr., of Bardstown, a life-long Nelson County farmer, died Monday, Aug. 3, 2015 surrounded by his family and loved ones. He was born and raised on the family farm on Murray’s Run Road. He knew a happy childhood of family, hard work and love. He played football at OKH for Red […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, 11:55 p.m. — The Bardstown City Council discussed its options for raising sufficient revenue to avoid spending the city’s savings to pay general fund expenses during its working session Tuesday night. Larry Green, the city’s assistant administrator, presented the council with a […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, 8 p.m. — Landline and mobile customers of AT&T — and any wireless carrier that uses the AT&T wireless network — found themselves without service Tuesday afternoon as part of a widespread AT&T outage. The outage affected users in Kentucky and other states including Tennessee, […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, 1:30 p.m. — Nelson County Judge Executive Dean Watts sharply criticized Bardstown Mayor John Royalty in a presentation about funding for the joint city-county recreation department, and called on the Bardstown City Council to take action. Speaking this morning before Nelson Fiscal […]
