NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Jan. 29, 2018 — Two Democrats have filed as candidates with the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office Monday to become candidates for the 50th District state representative. JAMES DEWEESE. Poplar Flat-area resident James DeWeese filed paperwork with the Kentucky Secretary of State Monday to become a candidate […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Jan. 29, 2018 — Boston resident and former deputy clerk Jeanette Sidebottom filed Monday afternoon as a Democratic candidate for Nelson County clerk. Sidebottom has 12 years of experience as a deputy clerk — 10 years working under Phyllis Mattingly, and two years under current county clerk […]
Mike Doutaz, 53, of Bardstown, died Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. He was born Feb. 21, 1964, in Louisville. He was a member of Nelson County Baptist Church and a basketball coach for Nelson County Baptist Church. He worked for Publishers Printing. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charlie and […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Jan. 29, 2018 –– Bardstown resident Doug Alexander filed Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, as a Republican candidate for Nelson County Coroner. Alexander is a first-time candidate for the office of coroner. During the 2014 election cycle, Alexander — who was a chaplain with the Nelson County Sheriff’s […]
Rep. CHAD MCCOY 50th District State Representative Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018 — As the first month of the 2018 General Assembly nears its end, House Budget Committees are busy meeting and reviewing each line of the Governor’s budget proposal, and some critical bills are moving through the legislative process. The first piece of legislation to […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018 — Past expanded government programs, present evil and future gubernatorial elections highlight this first 2018 edition of “Liberty Boosters and Busters.” Liberty Boosters: President Trump for allowing states waivers to create work requirements for able-bodied adults added to Medicaid as part of Obamacare, […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018 — Mayor Dick Heaton and the Bardstown City Council welcomed the city’s new fire chief at Tuesday evening’s council meeting. Billy N. Mattingly was sworn-in Tuesday night at the start of the council meeting. The council meeting began with a moment of […]
Mary Monica Ballard, 88, of the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, died Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. She was born Oct. 18, 1929, in Loretto to the late Charles Edward and Marie Aline Mattingly. She was preceded in death by her husband, Patrick Jerome Ballard (1980); four sisters, Marjorie Ballard, Aline Vittitow, Evelyn Fenwick and Dolores Blady; […]
David C. Holderman, 65, of Bardstown, died at 10:35 p.m., Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, at his home. He was born April 11, 1952, in Lebanon to the late Chester and Juanita Coulter Holderman. He was a 1970 graduate of Washington County High School, a member of the Springfield Baptist Church and attended the First Christian […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 — The name of the northern-most Nelson County section of the old Louisville Road — Salt River Road — is expected to change soon in the wake of a petition signed by property owners and submitted to Judge Executive Dean Watts on […]
