By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Sunday, April 24, 2016, 1 p.m. — At a private pinning ceremony at City Hall Sunday, Bardstown Police Officer Brad Gillock and Detective McKenzie Mattingly received their new bars representing their promotions to lieutenant and captain, respectively. The officers’ wifes — Darcy Gillock and Michelle Mattingly […]
Elwood Coomes Sr., 92, of Cox’s Creek, died Saturday, April 23, 2016, at the residence of his son. He was born Dec. 25, 1923, in Nelson County to the late Augustus and Mamie Snellen Coomes. He was a retired employee of T.W. Samuels and Waterfill & Frazier Distillery. He was a farmer, a U.S. Army […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Saturday, April 22, 2016, 10 a.m. — Kentucky Roll Call publisher and American hero Lowell Reese, who was exposed to Agent Orange decades ago while fighting communism as a battalion commander in the jungles of southeast Asia, made the ultimate sacrifice for his country when he boarded […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, April 22, 2016, 3:30 p.m. — Bardstown and Nelson County residents upset about Mayor John Royalty’s restructuring of the Bardstown Police Department and the decision of its chief to retire in its wake have organized a protest rally for 6 p.m. Sunday at the Nelson […]
An Open Letter to the Citizens of Bardstown To the people of Bardstown, I am aware of your concerns and know that many of you are confused about all that has happened with the changes in Police Department recently. Many of you are in the dark on what has gone on and why it was […]
Thelma Lucille “Sissy” Brightwell, 91, of Lebanon Junction, died Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. She was the former housekeeper for The People’s Bank in Lebanon Junction and a member of First Baptist Church of Lebanon Junction. She was preceded in death by her parents, Tom and Chanell Hoagland; and one […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 11 p.m. — The Bardstown Board of Education approved a proposal to request funding from the Bardstown Foundation for Excellence in Education to expand the school district’s focus on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — and create the Bardstown […]
James Matthew LaFollette, 81, of Lebanon Junction, died Monday, April 18, 2016, at the University of Louisville Hospital. He was a former employee of Bob Hester Construction and a veteran of the Army. He was preceded in death by his wife, Joyce Evelyn Arnette LaFollette; one son, Carl Douglas LaFollette; his parents, Matthew Eugene and […]
James Carroll Reynolds Jr., 75, of New Haven, died Monday, April 18, 2016, in Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Louisville. He was born May 16, 1940, in Cave City to the late James Carroll and Virgie Davis Reynolds Sr. He was a retired employee of Ford Motor Co., a 24-year member of Alcoholics Anonymous and a […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 3 p.m. — At Tuesday’s Nelson Fiscal Court meeting, Judge-Executive Dean Watts updated the court on the proposed change in how the landline 911 fees are collected. Watts is investigating removing the county-established 911 fee from landline phone bills and placing […]
