By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 –– The state pension crisis will have a larger-than-expected budgetary impact on the City of Bardstown’s Fiscal Year 2018-19 budget. Bardstown Mayor Dick Heaton shared a copy of a letter he received last week from John Chilton, the state budget director, that […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 — Bardstown’s new police chief was sworn-in and received a standing ovation from the audience and the members of the city council as Mayor Dick Heaton completed the oath of office. The audience who cheered Kraeszig’s official naming as chief included […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 — Bardstown’s new police chief will be officially sworn-in at tonight’s meeting of the Bardstown City Council. Kim Kraeszig, a 23-year law-enforcement veteran and former Louisville Metro Police assistant police chief, will be sworn-in by Mayor Dick Heaton at a special-called meeting set to […]
Anna Ruth Keene, 92, of Bardstown, died Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, at Windsor Gardens of Bardstown. She was born Jan. 28, 1925, in Bardstown to the late George Paul and Diana Bogie Nally Keene. She was a 1942 graduate of Bethlehem Academy and a 1944 graduate of St. Catherine College where she obtained an associate […]
Glenn Elliott Exum, 70, of Elizabethtown, died Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at Kindred Hospital in Louisville. He was a native of Fulton. He served in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Officer and Public Relations Officer. He retired from Fort Knox Civil Service as a Computer Network Administrator. He was a volunteer for Boy […]
By RONDA HARMON Executive Director, Kentucky Association of School Councils Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 — The new school year is always a season of fresh starts and opportunities. On the outside, the community sees the hard work in sports, the band, and other activities. Inside, this is a time when the school council moves from typical […]
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. […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 — Tickets are still available for the “Half Pint of Whiskey Trivia with a Shot of Humor” luncheon, noon to 2:30 p.m., this Friday, Sept 15, 2017, at Wickland, the Home of Three Governors, 550 Bloomfield Rd. in Bardstown. Local author and historian Dixie […]
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. […]
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS Syndicated Columnist Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017 — Many blacks and their white liberal allies demand the removal of statues of Confederate generals and the Confederate battle flag, and they are working up steam to destroy the images of Gens. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis from Stone […]
