Elizabeth Lavon Ballard Wimsett, 92, of Icetown, died Monday, April 3, 2017, at Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown. She was born Oct. 8, 1924 to the late William and Hilda Schircliff Ballard in Akron, Ohio. She was a lifetime member of St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church in New Haven. She was a loving wife, […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 11:31 p.m. — Nelson Fiscal Court approved a resolution Tuesday confirming the county’s participation in the state’s cooperative road fund program. The program provides counties with funding for road and bridge maintenance from the county’s share of the state’s tax on […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, April 4, 2017 – The Bardstown City Council met Tuesday, April 4, 2017, and made several decisions related to the public hearing April 12, 2017 to consider removal of Mayor John Royalty. Mayor Royalty was not present for the meeting. Running time: About 30 minutes. -30- […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 9 p.m. — Bardstown Mayor John Royalty did not attend Tuesdays city council working session, which — depending on the outcome of next Wednesdays’ removal hearing — may have been one of his final meetings as the city’s mayor. Following the […]
James Spencer Gootee Sr., 81, of Loretto, died Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at Cedars of Lebanon Nursing Center. He was born Jan. 13, 1936, in Marion County. He was a retired mechanic with Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown. He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert William Gootee Sr. and Margaret Augustine Cambron Gootee; […]
John Robert “Bob” Robinson, 57, of Cox’s Creek, died Monday, April 3, 2017, in the Hosparus Inpatient Care Center in Louisville. He was born Feb. 26, 1960, in Bardstown to George Alvin and Emma May Scobee Robinson. He was a farmer who served as the president of the Kentucky Home Pork Producers Association; secretary of […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, April 4, 2017, 6 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded Tuesday morning for a death investigation in the 5600 block of Nelsonville Road. According to a press release, at 9 a.m., Nelson County sheriff deputies and Nelson County EMS were dispatched to a home in […]
By SEN. JIMMY HIGDON 14th District State Senator Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 2 p.m. — Long nights, intense debate, and media attention from across the globe wrapped up what started as a quiet final week of the 2017 Session of the Kentucky General Assembly. Minutes before the Senate gaveled out for good, Gov. Matt Bevin called […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, March 4, 2017 — Tonight’s Bardstown City Council working session is expected to be fairly short due to the lack of items on the agenda. The council will receive a report on Councilwoman Kecia Copeland’s recent trip to Washington,, D.C. for the National Preservation Conference and Kentucky […]
John Lee “Johnny Coleman” Mattingly, 62, of Raywick, died Monday, April 3, 2017, at Bardstown Health and Rehab. He was born Sept. 22, 1954, in Marion County. He was a retired employee of Independent Stave Co. in Lebanon and was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam era. He was preceded in death by one […]
