By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 –– The Bardstown City Council Tuesday approved 20 recommendations by the Historical Review Board for approval of Conditional Use Permits from properties in the city’s historic district. The council approved the following recommendations (from the HRB’s Sept. 18, 2018 meeting) which included: […]
George Lloyd Haydon III, 88, of Nerinx, formerly of Walnut Street in Springfield, died at 4 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, at the Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary at Nerinx where he had been a resident since 2011. He is survived by four daughters, Elizabeth Jane Martin (Larry) of Carmel, Ind., Dorothy Haydon of Lebanon, Jacqueline Surface […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 — New signs were going up on the Furniture Liquidators store location in Kentucky Home Square shopping center on Wednesday morning. The new signs represent a rebranding of the store to represent the new stores commitment to quality products at a […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 — Don’t miss today’s “Bradford & Brooks” radio show at 11 a.m. on WBRT 1320 AM / 97.1 FM. Margie and Jim’s guests today are the candidates for Nelson County Coroner — incumbent Democrat Field Houghlin and Republican challenger Doug Alexander. Join us this morning […]
By JIM BROOKS Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 — Bardstown Mayor Dick Heaton and members of the city council voiced their approval for the School Resource Officer agreement between the Bardstown Police Department and Bardstown City Schools at Tuesday night’s council meeting. The Bardstown Board of Education approved the agreement […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 — A Balltown home was heavily damaged by a fire overnight that required resources from three fire departments to extinguish. At about 3:27 a.m. Tuesday, the Nelson County Fire Department, the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office and Nelson County EMS were dispatched for report of […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO STAFF REPORT Monday, Sept. 24, 2018 — A home on South Sixth Street was damaged by fire Monday afternoon. At about 3:14 p.m. Monday, the Bardstown Fire Department and Nelson County EMS responded for a reported structure fire in the 400 block of South Sixth Street, near the corner of […]
William Marion “Bill” Lashley, 83, of Icetown, died Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018, at his home in Icetown. He was born in Louisville Oct. 5, 1934, the son of the late Harland and Alice Aline Morris Lashley. He was a Baptist by faith. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran. He retired from the trucking industry […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO Business News Monday, Sept. 24, 2018 –– Bardstown’s Lux Row Distillers will lauch a special barrel-strength version of its Ezra Brooks brand Kentucky Bourbon this fall. The new seven-year-old Old Ezra Barrel Strength Straight Bourbon Whiskey is bottled at barrel strength of 117 proof. According to a company press release, […]
Mary Aline Thompson, 86, of New Hope, died Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018, at Landmark of Bardstown Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. She was born Dec. 30, 1931, in Marion County to the late Nicholas Ervine and Rosetta Watson Morris. She was a former employee of Nukote in Bardstown with 22 years of service and was a […]
