NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015 — Your Community Bank was recently named the “Most Philanthropic Company” among medium companies by Business First of Louisville. Representatives from the company accepted the award during the publication’s Partners in Philanthropy event on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. “Your Community Bank is […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, 11:55 p.m. — The Bardstown City Council will soon receive updates from the city’s engineering staff on the amount of funding the city’s general fund needs to “catch up” with street paving and sidewalk repairs. Councilman Fred Hagan told the council the […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, 11 p.m. — The Bardstown City Council’s working session Tuesday included a request to revisit adding Fairness Ordinance language to the city’s human rights ordinance. Mike Yadon spoke the council about its decision not to take up Fairness Ordinance language proposed in […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, 9 p.m. — Prior to its monthly working session Tuesday, the Bardstown City Council met briefly in a special-called meeting to hold first reading on an amended zoning change that it previously approved in July. The council had approved a zoning change […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, 8 p.m. — A Boston man was arrested Monday for violations of the Kentucky sex offender registry following an investigation by Detective Jason Woodson of the Bardstown Police Department. Police determined that Dustin D. Nelson, 29, had established a Facebook account which was not […]
Joseph Eugene “Tubby” Thornsberry Sr., 82, of New Haven, died Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, at his home. He was born Sept. 16, 1932, in Nelson County. He was retired from the U.S. Postal Service and was a former president of APWU Local 2859. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Air Force and […]
Thomas “Arvin” Norris, 69, of Bardstown, died Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, at Life Care Center of Bardstown. He was born Aug. 7, 1946, in Nelson County. He was retired from LG&E and a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by one son Chuck Norris; and his parents, Thomas and Gladys […]
Mary Ruth Taylor, 88, of Bardstown, died Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. She was the former Mary Ruth Thurman, born Oct. 2, 1926, in Nelson County to the late Pious Ed and Katherine Ann Powers Thurman. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Gregory Catholic Church. Along with her parents, […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015, 2 p.m. — Nelson County Judge-Executive Dean Watts announced today that he has hired Tyler Wimpsett as the county’s new recreation director. Wimpsett, 28, has been very active in local youth sports and brings both experience and enthusiasm to the job, Watts […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 — The Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, special meeting of the Bardstown City Council’s Finance Committee. The committee discussed the options for raising new revenue with the city’s occupational tax, coupled with new information regarding the need for more street and sidewalk repairs. Video […]
