By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, Dec 3, 2015, 3 p.m. — At Kentucky’s annual political cockfight known as the Fancy Farm Picnic this past summer, then-candidate Matt Bevin chastised participants and the crowd for “celebrating our divisions … in a childish way that frankly does not resolve any of the […]
William Paul “Billy” Bowman, 57, of Lebanon Junction, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at his home. He was a member of the Golden Boys Motorcycle Club. He retired from Johnson Controls and was a former custodian for Bullitt Central High School. He was a member of Gloryland Harvest Church. He loved to fish, ride his […]
Carlton Rayburn “Chief” Cornish, 79, of Chaplin, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at Baptist Health Hospital. He was born April 19, 1936, in Nelson County and was retired from General Electric. He was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 57 of Bloomfield, and Van Buren Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, 2:30 a.m. (Updated 11 a.m.) — A Willisburg man and his two passengers were injured early Thursday morning in a single vehicle crash on the Bluegrass Parkway. At 1:35 a.m., Nelson County EMS and the sheriff’s office responded for a report that a red 1998 […]
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. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 — Nelson County Sheriff Ed Mattingly held a press conference Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in regard to the stabbing death of Rasheed Wickliffe earlier that day in Bloomfield. Video courtesy of WBRT Radio and The Nelson County Gazette. -30- Please follow and like […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 — The Bardstown City Council met for a working session Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. The council heard a report regarding a restructuring of the cable TV rate schedule, a request to store the logs from a historic log cabin and other agenda items. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 — The Bloomfield man arrested Tuesday and charged with murder in the stabbing death of a Bardstown man was indicted Wednesday by a Nelson County Grand Jury. Alexander Cole Roberts, 18, was indicted for murder and tampering with physical evidence. He is being held […]
Rasheed Javon Wickliffe, 18, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, in Bloomfield. He was a 2015 graduate of Bardstown High School, an employee of Toyota Boshoku in Bardstown, and a member of St. John A.M.E. Zion Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, William and Margaret Wickliffe and Anna Murphy. He […]
Richard “Barry” Doyle, 90, of New Haven, died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015, peacefully surrounded by family at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. He was born in Dubuque, Iowa to Joseph and Rachael (Barry) Doyle. He was preceded in death by his four Madonna, Mary Jane, Dorrance and Francis, and is survived by Veronica, Kathleen, and […]
