Community news Thursday, July 20, 2017 — The Northeast Nelson Fire Protection District will host its annual kid’s night starting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday July 25, at Station 1, 130 Perry St., Bloomfield. Activities include food, games, and prizes. Children of all ages as well as their parents and guardians are invited to attend. -30- […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, July 20, 2017, 6:45 p.m. (ADDED resignation letter and new contract, 8:30 p.m.) — Anthony Orr resigned Thursday as superintendent of the Nelson County Schools at a special-called Board of Education meeting at the district’s Central Office on Wildcat Lane. Anthony Orr resignation letter His […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, July 20, 2017, 2 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office responded Thursday afternoon at about 1:25 p.m. to an apparent shooting death at a home on Pleasurefield Avenue in Stumph’s Mobile Home Park located just outside the city limits on Boston Road. The incident is under […]
Community news Thursday, July 20, 2017, 12:05 p.m. — The Nelson County Fair continues this evening at 6 p.m. Admission is $10 per person, and parking is free. Thursday’s events 6 p.m. Midway opens 6 p.m. 4-H and Open Class exhibits in Samuels Hall 6 p.m. Coca-Cola Talent Contest (Ky. State Fair preliminary) 7 p.m. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, July 20, 2017 — Due to extreme heat conditions, the City of Bardstown urges customers on days with heat advisories to have their garbage cans out to the curb by 6 a.m. This practice will continue throughout the summer months. The safety of our waste management crew […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Thursday, July 20, 2017 — The driver of a passenger car avoided serious injury Thursday morning when her car veered into the adjacent lane and struck a semi tractor-trailer while both were traveling eastbound on the Bluegrass Parkway. Just after 8 a.m., the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, Nelson County […]
Polly Lynnette Brothers, 50, of Bardstown, died Monday, July 17, 2017, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. She was born Oct. 18, 1966, in Nelson County. She was a former Instructional Assistant with Nelson County Schools and was a Catholic by faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Russell “J.R.” and Mary Blanche […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 5:50 p.m. — The Nelson County Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting for 5 p.m. Thursday to discuss and approve an agreement with district Superintendent Anthony Orr. At Tuesday night’s school board meeting there were rumors circulating that the board had decided […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 5:50 p.m. — A New Haven man was indicted on sodomy and incest charges Wednesday by a Nelson County grand jury. Steven Luvisi, 41, of New Haven, was indicted on charges of sodomy, first-degree, incest and persistent felony offender, second-degree. According to the the […]
Linda Sue Vernon Gaulke, 70, of Buffalo, died Tuesday, July 16, 2017, at her home. She was a homemaker and a Methodist by faith. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She was born Feb. 25, 1947 in Norton, Va., to the late Homer and Nellie Web Vernon. She was preceded in death by […]
