By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, May 12, 2017, 4 p.m. (Media statement added, 8 p.m.) — The attorneys for former Bardstown Mayor John Royalty filed notice he plans to appeal his removal as the city’s mayor. Download the appeal, 17-CI-0294 (pdf format) The appeal names all six members of […]
Kenneth “Shorty” Gribbins, 86, of New Hope, died Friday, May 12, 2017, at his residence. He was a native of New Hope. He was born Aug. 23, 1930. He was a lifelong farmer and a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Ann Gribbins; one […]
Jerry Wayne Downs, 64, of Bardstown, died Friday, May 12, 2017, at his residence. He was born April 30, 1953, in Louisville to William Jerry and Berniece Wells Downs. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, a member of the American Legion Post 121, a collector of coins, knives and a member of the […]
Charlotte Ann Green Mattingly, 69, of Lebanon, died Friday, May 12, 2017 at her residence. She was born Oct. 15, 1947, in Holy Cross. She was a member of St. Rose Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Francis Albert and Georgia Corbett Green; one sister, Pamela Cambron; four brothers, Francis Green […]
Bernard Warren Hagan, 77, of Louisville, died peacefully Monday, May 8, 2017,at Baptist East Hospital. He was born March 21,1940, in Bardstown to Leo Warren and Annie Laurie Boone Hagan. He lived in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville for more than 45 years. He was known by his many friends and coworkers as “Pepe”, “Bear” […]
Editor’s Note: The Nelson County Gazette believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail. The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the jail. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. This information is public record. […]
Margaret Anne Hicks, 70, of Shepherdsville, died Thursday, May 11, 2017, at her residence. She was born March 22, 1947 in Larue County. She was a retired employee of General Electric and a Catholic by faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Albert and Mary Calista DeSpain; and one brother, Ray DeSpain. Survivors […]
William Christopher Oldham, 31, of Lebanon Junction, died Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at Jewish Hospital South. He was a former employee of Denny’s and a Baptist by faith. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Jane and Rodney A. Simpson and Frances L. and Richard Oldham; and his great grandparents, Esther and Buford Noe. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, May 11, 2017, 2 p.m. — The Bluegrass Parkway remains closed at this hour for accident reconstruction after a tractor-trailer rig and a passenger car were involved in a head-on collision Thursday morning that injured one person and killed two adults and one child. The accident was […]
Marie John Kelley, SCN, 90, a native of South Boston, Mass., died Monday, May 8, 2017, at Nazareth Home in Louisville. She had been a professed Sister of Charity of Nazareth for 66 years. She served as a grade school teacher in Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, and Massachusetts. She was principal of Immaculate Conception in Newburyport, […]
