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 CHAD MCCOY50th District State Representative Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 — The Kentucky General Assembly has come a long way in a few short years. For decades, the legislature waited for the Governor to present his spending plan to begin working on a state budget. The Governor’s Office would literally hand them a budget, they […]
Jan Lee Linton, 69, of Bardstown, died Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, at Flaget Memorial Hospital. She was born Feb. 16, 1952, in Jefferson County. She retired from Inoac and was a member of St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by one son, Frankie Linton; her parents, John and Lillian Barber; […]
Martha Hatton, 69, of Bardstown, died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, at her home. She was born Aug. 8, 1952, in Bardstown. She was a former employee of Kroger, a member of Bloomfield Baptist Church, an animal lover, a great cook and she loved the outdoors. She was preceded in death by her parents, Randall and […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 — The web servers that host the Nelson County Gazette website were brought back online after 7-1/2 hour outage that began at about 9:30 Monday morning. The hosting company acknowledged the outage and reported they were working to restore the sites affected by the server […]
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. […]
Johnny Allen Norton, 54, of Taylorsville, died Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, at Norton Hospital in Louisville. He was born Sept. 23, 1967, in Spencer County to Carolyn Sue Brooks and Edgar J. Norton. He was a driver for Glasscock Sawmill and he enjoyed hunting and fishing. He is survived by his wife, Mary Jean Norton; […]
Martha Rose Spalding Miles, 91, died Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, at her home surrounded by her children. She was the last of her generation. She was born July 4, 1930, to Rosa Ella Mattingly and James Baker Spalding of Washington County. While raising her family, she worked as a cook for numerous local schools and […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022 — Nelson County’s long history as part of Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District was ended Saturday when new Congressional District maps were approved by the General Assembly. The redistricting approved by the General Assembly splits Nelson County basically in half, with the southern part […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022 — A Cox’s Creek man was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 to a 10-year prison term for his role in the drug overdose death of a Bardstown man in March 2020. Robert Estel Girdley, 36, was one of three individuals arrested for the Bardstown man’s […]
