Sister Rosemary Nicholson SL (Sister Thomas Ann), 93, of Nerinx, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx. She was born October 15, 1922, in Catawissa, Mo. to the late James Thomas and Catherine Ann Brown Nicholson. She entered religious life June 8, 1951, and received her final vows Aug. 15, […]
Joseph C. “Chuck” Blanford, 50, of Holy Cross, died Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, at his residence. He was born Nov. 19, 1965, in Nelson County. He was a farmer and an employee of Heaven Hill Brands in Bardstown. He was preceded in death by his father, Francis Earl “Frankie” Blanford Sr.; and one brother, Earl […]
Beatrice Tatum Russell, 95, of Bardstown, died Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, at Signature Colonial Health and Rehab in Bardstown. She was born April 29, 1921, in Mercer County to the late Ezra and Lillie Alice Click Tatum. She was a homemaker who actively worked on the farm. She was a member of Bloomfield Baptist Church […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, 6 p.m. — While discussions about the City of Bardstown’s continued participation in the joint 911 dispatch service were underway, city hall employees were filing open records requests in a search to apparently verify complaints about the dispatch center’s call-taking, radio quality, […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Aug. 12, 2016, 3:30 a.m. — Bardstown Police are investigating a possible drug-related shooting that took place early Friday morning at a home in Rogan’s Mobile Home Park on the north side of Bardstown off North Third Street. At 2:29 a.m., police, Nelson County EMS and Bardstown […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, 5 p.m. — The Bardstown City Council approved a request to close Flaget Avenue between Second and Third streets in support of the fourth annual Bardstown Craft Beer Festival on Saturday, Oct. 15. At its meeting Tuesday night, the council also gave […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, 4 p.m. — A request from Bardstown business owners for more flexibility in the city’s sign regulations was sent for review to a committee that hasn’t held a meeting since September 2014. At its meeting Tuesday night, the Bardstown City Council reviewed […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, 2 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office served former Bardstown Police Officer Nick Houck with a search warrant early Thursday afternoon at a home owned by his grandmother at the corner of Pulliam and East Forrest Avenue near the […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, 2 p.m. — Without discussion, the Bardstown City Council held first reading of changes to an old ordinance that addressed 911 service fees. The ordinance change was designed to allow the City of Bardstown to claim its share of the 911 fee […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, 9 p.m. — The Bardstown City Council was assured at its meeting Tuesday that the decision to suspend the use of body cameras in the police department was a temporary measure designed to avoid creating records the department could not track. Councilwoman […]
