Community News Wednesday, May 4, 2017 — The 57th annual Kiwanis Radio Auction is 1-6 p.m. Sunday, May 21, 2017, and will be broadcast live on WBRT 1320 AM and 971. FM. Thousands of dollars in new merchandise and services will be auctioned off to the highest bidder, by telephone or by in-person bids at […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, May 2, 2017. 11 p.m. — The county’s fiscal year 2018 budget will have $300,000 more funding for road repairs and paving than last year’s budget. Judge Executive Dean Watts presented the county’s next budget for first reading at Tuesday’s meeting of Nelson Fiscal Court. […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 10:55 p.m. — The Bardstown City Council has gotten the final bill for the investigation it approved in January that ended with the removal of Mayor John Royalty. The council voted to approve the selection of Lexington Attorney Scott Crosbie as its […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 9 p.m. — The Bardstown City Council voted unanimously to forward the evidenced gathered during the investigation and public hearing of former Mayor John Royalty to the joint Board of Ethics as well as the office of Commonwealth’s Attorney, Terry Geoghegan. “That […]
Michael Anthony Wilson, SCN, 81, a native of Louisville, died at Nazareth Home Monday, May 1, 2017. Sister had been a professed Sister of Charity of Nazareth for 60 years. She served as a teacher in Louisville at St. Patrick and St. Cecilia schools. She taught at St. Gregory in Samuels and St. Thomas Vincent […]
Community news Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 1:30 p.m. — The National Day of Prayer local event originally scheduled for Thursday, May 4, 2017, has been canceled. According to Bardstown Apostolic Sanctuary Pastor Tim Acree, the church lost the venue it had planned to use. -30- Please follow and like us:
Stoy “J.R.” Vittitow Jr., 79, of Boston, formerly of Nelsonville, died Monday, May 1, 2017, at his residence. He was born March 3, 1938 and was the son of the late Stoy Brunner and Eula B. Vittitow. He was retired from Gates Rubber Co. in Elizabethtown. He was a member of Nelsonville Church of Christ. […]
Robert Charles Chada, 80, of Hodgenville, formerly of Chicago, died Sunday, April 30, 2017, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. He was born July 25, 1936, the son of the late Fred and Christine Chada. He was a retired business owner of Chada Plumbing Services in Chicago for several years and retired Plumbing and Building […]
Charles “Charlie” Henry Rogers, 85, of Bardstown, died Sunday, April 30, 2017, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. He was born Nov. 20, 1931, in Petersburg, to the late Hugh and Iva Rose Rogers. Charlie was a member and deacon emeritus of the First Christian Church Disciples of Christ in Bardstown, and was a veteran […]
Community news Monday, May 1, 2017 — The theme for the Bardstown Community Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert is “from classics…to the movies.” The concert is 5 p.m. Saturday, May 13, at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 211 North Third St. in Bardstown. The opening number will be a selection from George Friedich Handel’s oratorio, […]
