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. Everyone booked into the jail […]
By JIM BROOKSNelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024 — Nelson Fiscal Court approved a resolution regarding a $1.2 million grant that will be awarded jointly the county, the City of Bardstown, NCEDA and the Bardstown Industrial Development Corp. The approval came at its second regular meeting of the month on Tuesday […]
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. Everyone booked into the jail […]
To the editor, House Bill 5 before the legislature calls for more incarceration and longer prison sentences. A local writer listed some crime prevention measures but left out a main one: churches. More preaching means less crime, so, we work and pray for more churches; more members and more money to churches. Churches could help […]
Arthur Thomas Butler Sr, 84, died Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, at Signature Healthcare of Taylorsville. He was born Dec. 5, 1939, in Bloomfield to the late William and Sallie Wells Butler. He retired from Heaven Hill Distillery and a former employee of Grigsby Hardware and Geoghegan Trucking. He loved to hunt, fish and garden and […]
NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIOSTAFF REPORT Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 — Nelson County Judge-Executive Tim Hutchins and members of the state champion 2023 Bethlehem High School girls soccer team and their supporters gathered Monday afternoon for the official unveiling of a sign that announces to visitors that Bardstown is home to the 2023 girls state […]
Irene Nell Lewis, 93, of Springfield, died Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at her home. She is survived by four nieces, Tippy Simpson of Montgomery, Ala., Mary Helen Burch of Waddy, Sara Lewis of Springfield and Rose Keeylen of Louisville; two nephews, Charlie Lewis III of Jeffersonville, Ind., and Alan Lewis of Lebanon; seven great-nieces; and […]
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. Everyone booked into the jail […]
Margaret Louise Mattingly, 93, of New Hope, died Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, at Windsor Gardens in Bardstown. She was born Dec. 18, 1930, in Nelson County. She formerly worked at Jim Beam Distillery for 27 years. She was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, […]
Joseph “Superfast” Upson Sr., 26, of Bardstown, died Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. He was born Feb. 25, 1997, in Nelson County. He was a Class of 2015 Bardstown High School graduate. He enjoyed his work at Ray Norman auto repair as a manager mechanic, and always lived his life with a smile on his face. […]
