NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 10 a.m. – The Bardstown City Council’s safety committee held a special-called meeting Monday, April 25, 2016, at City Hall to discuss a proposal to have the Kentucky State Police post in Elizabethtown provide dispatch services for the city’s fire and police departments. -30- Please […]
By ALLISON RUSSELL Guest columnist Tuesday, April 26, 2016 — Family members participating in the care and raising of children is a long-held tradition in our country. However, the reasons for the current trend towards grandparent-headed households are a reflection of contemporary problems. Parental substance abuse, incarceration, serious physical and mental illness, abuse and neglect, […]
Bernard Lee Biven, 68, of Bardstown, died Saturday, April 23, 2016, at his residence. He was born April 19, 1948, to the late Vincent Louis and Mabel Catherine Hobbs Biven. He was a painter, an Air Force veteran and a member of the Catholic faith. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Rose Catherine […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, April 25, 2016, 8 p.m. (Added meeting video April 26, 2016, 10 a.m.) — The Bardstown City Council safety committee got its first look at a proposal from the Kentucky State Police to take over dispatching services for the city’s fire and police departments. The […]
Dear Dave, I know when it comes to investing you like mutual funds and paid-for real estate. What do you think about using condominiums as investment properties instead of single-family homes? Jason Dear Jason, I don’t really have a problem with condos as paid-for investments. I own a couple of them myself. When it comes […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Monday, April 25, 2016 — Mayor John Royalty contacted the Kentucky State Police in February to ask them about having KSP perform the city’s dispatching for its police and fire departments. In a letter obtained from KSP by an Open Records request, Royalty wrote to Kim […]
Lorene Schafer Allen, 95, of San Angelo, Texas, died Saturday, April 23, 2016, at Windsor Gardens in Bardstown. She was born March 14, 1921 in Loyal, Okla., and a member of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Horace Allen; her parents, John C. and Dollie Schafer; a sister and […]
NELSON COUNTY GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, April 25, 2016 — Gov. Matt Bevin today announced Legend Lumber Lee Corp. plans to open in a shuttered hardwood lumber concentration yard on Sawmill Road in Boston, investing nearly $3.5 million and creating at least 30 full-time positions to produce hardwood for export to Asia. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Sunday, April 24, 2016, 11:45 p.m. – More than 250 people gathered Sunday, April 24 at a rally organized largely by social media at the Nelson County Justice Center to protest Mayor John Royalty’s changes to the Bardstown Police Department. -30- Please follow and like us:
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Sunday, May 24, 2016, 9 p.m. (UPDATED, Video added, 11:58 p.m.) — A rally to protest Bardstown Mayor John Royalty’s recent restructuring of the city police department without consulting with its chief attracted more than 250 people to the Nelson Justice Center Sunday evening. The rally […]
