Donald Ray Adcock, 77, of Taylorsville, died Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, at Baptist Healthcare in Louisville. He was born Aug. 6, 1940, in Louisville to the late James Harvey and Clara Moppins Adcock. He was a retired transmission repairman and a retired employee of Fisher Packing Co. He was a member of the Pentecostal faith. […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 — The historic fire-damaged home that is located behind the Wickland mansion will mostly like be rebuilt. Nelson County Judge Executive Dean Watts told Nelson Fiscal Court that an engineering assessment of the building indicated that the walls of the original […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 — The Bardstown Board of Education Tuesday approved without comment a new tax rate that will generate 4 percent more tax revenue than last year’s tax rate. The tax rate will increase from last year’s rate of 79.7 cents per $100 […]
Judy Ann Blandford, 64, of Miller Ave., Springfield, died at 11:19 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, at University Hospital in Louisville. She is survived by one son, Jamie (Sharon) Blandford of Loretto; her mother, Mabel Miles Blandford of Springfield; five sisters, Mary (Louis) Wheatley of Raywick, Betty Blandford and Aggie (Bill) Hutchins, both of Springfield, […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, 1:30 p.m. — Flaget Memorial Hospital will have a new president at the helm effective Sept. 1. KentuckyOne Health announced Monday that Jennifer Nolan, who serves as president of Our Lady of Peace and Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital in Louisville, will be the […]
Tommy Hodge, 63, of Lebanon Junction, died Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, at Signature Healthcare in Elizabethtown. He worked for Magna Seating and was a member of the Independent Baptist Church in Shepherdsville. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jesse G. Hodge, Sr. and Mildred Jackson Hodge; and one sister, Louise Elder. Survivors include […]
Amber Lynne Tingle, 26, of Shepherdsville, died Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, at University of Louisville Hospital. She was born March 13, 1991, in Jefferson County. She was a 2009 graduate of Nelson County High School and a manager for McDonalds in Shepherdsville. She loved fishing, her animals, and her Ford Mustang. She is survived by […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017 — The Human Society of Nelson County was recently awarded a $450 grant by the Kentucky Cattlemen’s Foundation from the Animal Shelter Assistance program. The Animal Shelter Assistance program is in its seventh year and was funded by the Kentucky Cattlemen’s Foundation. Foundation […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017 — The odds are good that Sen. Chris McDaniel will win the bet he made during a recent legislative hearing regarding the future of Kentucky Wired, former Gov. Steve Beshear’s statewide broadband boondoggle. Pointing to the project’s significant delays, cost overruns, erroneous presumptions […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 — The American Red Cross urges blood donors to give in the final weeks of summer to help overcome a chronic summer blood shortage. To fully meet the needs of hospital patients in the coming days and weeks, donations are urgently needed from new […]
