Ernest Eugene “Gene” Conley, 89, of Bardstown, died Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, in Bardstown. He was born Jan. 30, 1927, to the late Benjamin Harrison and Bertha Mae Barnett Conley. He was retired from the U.S. Treasury Department, a WWII Army veteran, a member of American Legion Post #288 and a member of Bardstown Methodist […]
Joseph L. “Sonny” Greenwell Jr., 72, of New Haven, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at his home. He was the owner of Joseph L. Greenwell Funeral Home in New Haven and former co-owner of Greenwell-Houghlin Funeral Home in Bardstown. He was a member of both National Funeral Directors Association and Kentucky Funeral Directors Association. He […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, 12:20 p.m. — A New Haven man was arrested Sunday morning after a Bardstown Police officer’s K-9 detected the possible drugs in the man’s vehicle during a traffic stop. Timothy Scott Newton, 48, of New Haven, was arrested on drug-related charges following a traffic […]
Editor’s Note: The indictment of a person by a grand jury or otherwise is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 – The following people were indicted by a Nelson County grand jury on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. They were scheduled for arraignment on Thursday, Feb. […]
Edward Athanasius “Eddie Boo” Mattingly, 78, of Lebanon, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, at Norton Hospital in Louisville. He was born June 9, 1937, in Calvary. He was a retired farmer. He was preceded in death by his parents, E.A. Mattingly and Nannie Elizabeth Harmon Mattingly; one sister, Pat Mattingly; and two brothers, Joe Mattingly […]
Stevie Coomes, 56, of Bardstown, died Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, at University Hospital in Louisville. He wa preceded in death by his parents, Preston and Dottie Coomes. He is survived by one daughter, Kirstie Oglesby of Summerfield, Fla.; one son, Stephen Kyle Coomes of Bardstown; one brother, Donnie Coomes; and two grandchildren. Cremation was chosen. […]
Joseph Parker Mattingly, 73, of Bardstown, died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, at his residence. He was born Feb. 12, 1943, in Loretto. He worked for Eastern Airlines and a member of the Moose Lodge. He was preceded in death by his wife, Theresa Ann Boone Mattingly; his mother, Mary C. Mattingly; and one sister, Shelby […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, 4 p.m. — The Hardin County woman sought by police after she walked away from the Ross-Cash Center, the minimum-security facility for female offenders adjacent to the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex near Eddyville, was captured early Sunday morning by Kentucky State Police in the […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016 – Nelson Fiscal Court, the Bardstown Board of Education and the Nelson County Board of Education held their regular meetings on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Click on the thumbnail images below to play the meeting video you wish to view. Nelson Fiscal Court […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, 11 a.m. — Supporters of a government-owned broadband network paint a very bleak picture of the broadband options available across Kentucky. The Lexington Herald-Leader recently argued in an editorial that because broadband speeds across the entire commonwealth aren’t as fast as Delaware’s, […]
