Levon Coulter, 90, of Bardstown, died Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 21, 1926, in Nelson County to the late Robert and Evelyn Jenkins Satterly. She was a retired bookkeeper for the former Coulter’s Shell Station in Bloomfield and along with her late husband, founded Coulter’s Towing. She was […]
Nancy Lucille Weller, 75, of Elizabethtown, died Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, at Hardin Memorial Hospital. She was a native of Nelson County and a member of Open Valley Baptist Church. She was a Kentucky Colonel and retired from Walmart. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Lucille Dorsey Sims; and one sister, […]
Alvin L. Clan 53, of Hodgenville, died Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, at TriStar Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville. He was born in Bardstown to Artie and Doris Brey Clan. He was a truck driver for Pepper Farms. He loved his family and his dogs. He was a hard worker and an avid coffee drinker. […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 — The Supreme Court’s recent ruling that Missouri wrongly used its constitution’s Blaine Amendment to deny a publicly funded grant to a church-run preschool won’t directly affect growing efforts to add Kentucky to the list of states offering private school-choice programs in […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 — The Nelson County Board of Education discussed the process it will use to begin the search for a new superintendent at its working session Thursday evening. Board Chair Diane Breeding told the board that by law, the selection committee the district appoints is […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Friday, Aug. 8, 2017 — Tom Brown, the interim superintendent of Nelson County Schools, told the board Thursday that he plans to revise the management structure of the district’s Central Office. At the board’s work session, he said the Central Office’s existing structure resembled “an inverted T” that […]
Clarissa Kaye Haste, 23, of Nelson County, died Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, at Jewish Hospital in Shelbyville. She was born Aug. 17, 1993, in Elizabethtown. She was a 2012 graduate of Nelson County High School, where she played golf, bowled, sang in choir, and played the clarinet in the Nelson County band. She is survived […]
Tyler Unseld, 22, of Bardstown, died Wednesday August 2, 2017 at Jewish Hospital in Shelbyville. He was born Dec. 8, 1994 in Louisville. He was a self-employed contractor. He was a member of Parkway Baptist Church who loved fishing, hunting, bull riding, four-wheeling and was an avid UofL fan. He was preceded in death by […]
NELSON COUNTY GAZETTE/ WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 — Mary Riley was officially approved by the Bardstown City Council as the new city clerk Tuesday evening during the council’s monthly working session. At City Hall, Riley has formerly served as executive assistant to the mayor and as an administrative assistant in the […]
Valinda Pettit, 93, of Bardstown, died Monday, July 31, 2017, at Bardstown Health & Rehab. She was born April 3, 1924, in Bardstown to the late Russell and Mary Helen “Lainie” Hutchins Greenwell. She was a retired employee of the Nelson County Board of Education and was a member of St. Thomas Catholic Church. She […]
