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Mayor issues executive order requiring masks to enter all city-owned buildings

NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Friday, Aug. 6, 2021 — The City of Bardstown Mayor Dick Heaton issued an executive order Friday that effective Monday, Aug. 9th, a mask or facial covering will be required for entry into any City of Bardstown building regardless of vaccination status. The move follows similar moves by county […]

August 6th, 2021 | Posted in Breaking News,City Government,Health,Public Safety | Read More »

Obituary: Rosemarie Chase, SCN, 85, Nazareth

Rosemarie Chase, SCN, 85, of Nazareth, died Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, at the Nazareth Motherhouse at Nazaret. She was a native of Boston, Mass., and a professed Sister of Charity of Nazareth for 57 years. She entered the Congregation in 1961. She was known for her intellect and love of learning, having attended Spalding University […]

August 6th, 2021 | Posted in Deaths | Read More »

Nelson County Jail Logs — Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021

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. […]

August 6th, 2021 | Posted in Breaking News,Courts,Jail Logs,Police / Fire / EMS | Read More »

COVID-19 update: 33 new cases reported Thursday in Nelson County

NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 — COVID cases continue their upward trend in Nelson County with 33 new cases reported Thursday by the Lincoln Trail District Health Department. Nelson County had the second highest number of new cases in the six-county Lincoln Trail district. The new cases bring the county […]

August 5th, 2021 | Posted in Breaking News,City Government,County government,Health,News,Public Safety | Read More »

Masks required in county buildings; hospitals to require employee vaccinations

NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 — As the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to spiral upward, local governments and businesses are taking steps to slow the spread of the virus. MASKS REQUIRED. On Thursday, Nelson County Judge Executive issued an executive order that will require masks or face coverings […]

August 5th, 2021 | Posted in Breaking News,Business News,County government,Health,News,Public Safety | Read More »

Grand jury indicts New Haven man Wednesday on incest, rape charges

NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 — A New Haven man was indicted Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, on charges that include rape, incest, sodomy and sexual abuse of a minor under the age of 12. John Daniel Rister, 36, of New Haven, was indicted Wednesday by a Nelson County Grand Jury […]

August 5th, 2021 | Posted in Breaking News,Courts,Indictments,News,Police / Fire / EMS,Public Safety | Read More »

Nelson County Jail Logs — Aug. 3-4, 2021

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. […]

August 5th, 2021 | Posted in Jail Logs,Police / Fire / EMS | Read More »

Obituary: Allen Cox, 51, Bardstown

Allen Cox, 51, of Bardstown, died Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, at Norton Brownsboro Hospital. He was born May 9, 1970, in Nelson County. He worked for Century Cabinetry. He was a University of Kentucky Fan, a woodworker and loved his family. He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert “Bobby” and Mary Helen Riley […]

August 4th, 2021 | Posted in Deaths | Read More »

Obituary: Ronald ‘Flint’ Hill, 68, Bardstown

Ronald “Flint” Hill, 68, of Bardstown, died Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. He was born Aug. 4, 1953, in Bardstown to the late Charles Adam Hill and Juanita Rhea Howard Hill. He was the owner of FlintRon Electric in Lexington. He graduated from Bardstown High School and Murray State where […]

August 4th, 2021 | Posted in Deaths | Read More »

Fiscal court to leave property tax rate the same; will study jail’s environment

By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021 — Nelson Fiscal Court plans to leave the county’s property tax rate the same for 2022 as it was for 2021. The 2021 rate was 13.9 per $100 value for real estate. Judge Executive Dean Watts noted that leaving the rate the same […]

August 3rd, 2021 | Posted in Bourbon-related,Breaking News,Business News,County government,News,Politics,Public Safety,State government | Read More »

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