NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, June 3, 2016 — Bill Buckman filed this Friday morning to keep his seat on the Bardstown City Council. Buckman, 58, is a retired Bardstown Police officer and a resident of Old Nazareth Road. He will finish his first two-year term on the city council in December. […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, June 2, 2016, 11:53 p.m. — Attorneys representing Brooks Houck’s grandmother say that she cannot be compelled to testify to a Nelson County grand jury if that testimony could lead to criminal action against her. The Commonwealth Attorney’s office is seeking to subpoena Anna M. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, June 2, 2016, 5:55 p.m. — Mayor John Royalty’s firing of former police Capt. Tom Roby was “an act of retribution and a way to justify the City’s much-criticized police reorganization,” according to his attorney, Keith Sparks of McCoy & Sparks. In a press release issued Thursday […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, June 2, 2016, 1:50 p.m. — Retired Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin posted this open letter to Mayor John Royalty and the community on social media early Thursday afternoon. “Upon my announcement that I was retiring, many people made reference to and assumed that I was “leaving […]
Joseph Eugene Ritchie, 62, of Bloomfield, died Thursday, June 2, 2016, at his residence. He was born Sept. 25, 1953, in Nelson County. He was a maintenance supervisor at the Abbey of Gethsemani. He was preceded in death by his parents, Roy and Cecilia Ritchie; three sisters, Patsy Silloway, Libby Johnson and Mary Lou Mudd; […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 2 p.m. — Bardstown native Nicky Rapier has been appointed to the board of directors of Town & Country Bank and Trust and First Farmers Bank Holding Co. Rapier is a 1979 graduate of Bardstown High School and a 1983 graduate of Morehead State […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 11:55 p.m. — Two people were injured Wednesday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident that happened in the 1200 block of North Third Street near Smith Brothers Distributing. Nelson County EMS, Bardstown Police and the Bardstown Fire Department were dispatched at about 3:38 p.m. for […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 11 p.m. — Tom Roby, the Bardstown Police officer who was fired Tuesday for allegedly destroying police documents, was simply doing what his chief had given him authorization to do — clean out his desk. In an interview with WDRB 41 News, Bardstown attorney […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 8 p.m. — The Joint Ethics Board accepted an advisory opinion Wednesday that allows Tom Blair — Mayor John Royalty’s brother-in-law — to receive a promotion he was seeking as a member of the Bardstown Police Department. The ethics board was asked […]
Francis Theodore “Sam” Nalley, 82, of Bardstown, died Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at his residence. He was born June 11, 1933, in Holy Cross. He was a former truck driver with Advance Trucking in Louisville and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He was preceded in death by his parents, Francis Leslie and Mary […]
