By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, 11:49 p.m. — The county school district is making progress in reducing the number of incoming kindergarten students who aren’t academically ready to start the kindergarten curriculum. This assessment was presented to the Nelson County Board of Education at its monthly meeting […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, 9 p.m. — The Bardstown Board of Education reviewed the district’s results of the recently released K-PREP test scores at its meeting Tuesday, and also heard of initial plans for continued improvement at the district’s schools. Cara Blackmon, the district’s director of […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette/ WBRT Radio Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, 8 p.m. — Nelson Fiscal Court Tuesday approved industrial revenue bond resolutions for Heaven Hill Brands, Jim Beam and the Bardstown Bourbon Co. For Heaven Hill and Beam, the bonds represent an expansion of their ongoing operations. Heaven Hill is planning to be […]
Frances Josephine Edelen, 90, of Bardstown, died Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, in Louisville. She was born April 25, 1925, in Washington County to the late John Bradley and Mary Theresa Yates Wimsatt. In her education she received her bachelor’s degree from Spalding College and her masters from Western Kentucky University. She was a former teacher […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette/ WBRT Radio Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, 11 p.m. — A July 24, 2015, polygraph exam administered by an FBI agent to former Bardstown Police Officer Nick Houck revealed Houck was not truthful in answers to questions about what happened to Crystal Rogers or her whereabouts. In a video […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson Count Gazette/ WBRT Radido Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, 6 p.m. — Documents and video obtained by the Nelson County Gazette show Brooks Houck, boyfriend of Crystal Rogers, receiving a phone call from Bardstown Police Officer Nick Houck while Brooks was in an interview with Detective Jon Snow of the Nelson […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015 — A New Hope man was injured Saturday afternoon when his car ran off Loretto Road and hit a whiskey warehouse near the intersection with Gilkey Run Road at Heaven Hill Brands. Nelson County Fire & Rescue, Nelson County EMS and the Nelson County […]
Patricia Lynn “Patsy” Pittman, 56, of Lebanon, died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, at her home. She was born May 28, 1959, in Marion County. She was a homemaker and member of Grace Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Calvin Bradford “Brad” Pittman; one daughter, Elizabeth Ann “Beth” Pittman; her parents, William […]
James Spalding Elder, 80, of Fairfield, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, at his home. He was born April 3, 1935, in Spencer County to the late Thomas D. and Virginia Hammack Elder. He was a barber, a farmer, and a member of St. Michael Catholic Church. Along with his parents, he was preceded in death […]
Joseph Leonard “Joe L.” Cissell, 65, of New Haven, died Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. He was a member of St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church in New Haven. He was born Oct. 13, 1950 to the late John Henry and Margaret Gertrude Boone Cissell. He was a retired supervisor […]
