NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, 3 p.m. — Howard Keene, the vice president market manager of Nelson County for Your Community Bank, recently graduated from the prestigious Graduate School of Banking program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Keene spent 25 months in the graduate banking program in […]
Jim Puerkel, 67, of Bardstown, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, at his residence. He was born August 31, 1948, in Niles, Ill. He was a mechanic for the National Guard and attended Nelson Christian Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Lilly Puerkel; one brother, Greg Puerkel; and one brother-in-law, Tim Snape. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 — The Bardstown Fire Department responded to the Bloomfield Road Dollar General Store Thursday night after an employee reported the smell of smoke in the building. Firefighters were dispatched to the store located at 975 Bloomfield Road at about 9:40 p.m.. The employee said […]
By SYLVIA HORLANDER Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, 12:03 a.m. — The Bardstown-Nelson County Chamber of Commerce announced the recipients of the chamber’s annual man and woman of the year as well as the volunteer of the year award at its annual dinner Thursday night at the Great Hall at […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, 5 p.m. — Parents nationwide are taking to social media to express their voluminous frustration with ludicrous math exercises introduced by public schools as a consequence of the much – and deservedly – maligned Common Core State Standards. They know these exercises don’t […]
Dear Dave, My husband was laid off a month ago from a job making $80,000 a year. We have no debt except our house payment. We owe about $82,000 on it, but it’s valued at approximately $300,000. We’ve also got an emergency fund of $30,000, and I work part-time making about $2,000 a month while […]
Mary Charles (Charlie) Heady Hawthorne, 89, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, in Blackstone, Va. She was born Sept. 2, 1926, in Larue County. She is preceded in death by her parent, Terrill and Elma Allen Heady; her first husband, Leonard Pepper; and her second husband, Bennett (Ben) Hawthorne Sr. She is survived by one brother, […]
Anna Marcelene Lee, 74, of Saint Joe, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, at her residence. She was born May 29, 1941, in Marion County to the late Mattie Catherine Buckman and Joseph Paul Shewmaker. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Deborah Ann Livers; one brother, Billy Ray Shewmaker; and one brother-in-law, Terry Payne. […]
Doyle Lee Eskridge, 79, of Buffalo, died Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, at his home. He was a self-employed sawmiller and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was preceded in death by his parents, Delmar Lee and Addie Baxter Eskridge. Survivors include one daughter, Sherry Eskridge; one son, Dayle Eskridge (Vicki); one sister Wilma Vittitoe […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, 4:15 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office investigated a stabbing Thursday afternoon at a residence in the 1900 block of Highview Church Road. At about 3:10 p.m., the sheriff’s office and Nelson County EMS were dispatched for what what was initially reported as […]
