Katherine Pauline Mattingly, 92, of Loretto, died Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. She was born Sept. 10, 1923, in Raywick. She was a former employee of Star Hill Distillery and was a member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Marty […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 — Nelson Fiscal Court unanimously approved Tuesday morning a 911 agreement approved last week by the Bardstown City Council. The vote was taken without comment or discussion of Mayor John Royalty’s email to the magistrates asking them to turn away the council’s […]
Ruth Morgan Hahn, 88, of Bardstown, died Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, at her residence. She was the daughter of the late James and Clara Romine Trent and was born Oct. 1, 1927, in Anderson County. She was a former employee of Texas Instruments and Nukote, and was a member of the Nelson Christian Church. Along […]
Betty Molyneaux Carothers, 69, of Peachtree City, Ga., and formally of Bardstown, died Saturday Sept. 3, 2016, at her home. She was born Jan. 10, 1947, in Louisville. She was a teacher, sales person, and a flight attendant. She was the first president of Alpha Delta Pi at Eastern Kentucky University. She won numerous tennis […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, 8 p.m. — The Nelson County Fire Department was called Monday morning to the 200 block of Hialeah Drive in Ridgecrest Farms for a barn on fire. Firefighters were dispatched at about 11:58 a.m. When firefighters arrived the barn was fully involved in flames. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, 8 p.m. — Two people were suffered non-life threatening injuries Monday afternoon in a motorcycle accident north of Bloomfield on KY55. At about 3:50 p.m., Nelson County EMS was dispatched for an injury accident in the 2000 block of Taylorsville Road outside Bloomfield. EMS […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Sept. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department responded Sunday afternoon to American Legion Post 167 on Downs Lane for an investigation of an odor of smoke in the building. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at 1:45 p.m. Fire crews traced the source of the […]
Jackie Eugene Byrd, 56, of Chaplin Road, Willisburg, died at 11:32 a.m., Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, at his home. He was born in Louisville March 4, 1960, to James and Gracie Burkhead Byrd. He was a 1978 graduate of Washington County High School and attended the Willisburg Church Of God. He was a farmer. Preceding […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, 4 p.m. — A 78-year-old man was injured Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash near the bottom of Burg Hill on US150, the Springfield Road. The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, Nelson County EMS and Nelson County Fire Department were called to the area of […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, 6 p.m. (Added Mayor’s comments, 6:45 p.m.) — The day after the Bardstown City Council voted to move toward a new city-count 911 dispatch agreement, Mayor John Royalty has intervened in an effort to thwart its acceptance by Nelson Fiscal Court. In […]
