Council OKs Colonial Days ‘gun frolic,’ McCubbin reports on first year as chief
By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette
Councilman Bobby Simpson reads a letter from the Kentucky Heritage Council during Tuesday night's council meeting. Simpson was elected to serve as mayor pro tem due to the absence of Mayor Bill Sheckles. Click image to enlarge.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 9 p.m. – Mayor Bill Sheckles was absent from Tuesday’s Bardstown City Council session due to a family member’s hospitalization. Councilman Bobby Simpson was elected mayor pro tem for the session, which featured a light agenda of routine business.
Mayor Pro Tem Bobby Simpson read a letter from the Marty Perry, the Kentucky Heritage Council coordinator for the National Register of Historic Places, which congratulated the city on the final acceptance of four sites in Bardstown that were approved additions to the Register. The four sites were Baldwin’s Tourist Court Residence-Office, 321 W. Stephen Foster Ave.; Kurtz Restaurant and the Bardstown-Parkview Motel Office, 418 East Stephen Foster Ave. ; Old Kentucky Home Motel, 414 W. Stephen Foster Ave; and Wilson Motel, 530 North Third St.
COLONIAL DAYS AT WICKLAND. The council unanimously approved a municipal resolution allowing “rifle frolic” to take place during the Colonial Days, Friday, March 30, 2012 through Sunday, April 1, 2012.
While the event is hosted at Wickland, the rifle frolic takes place at a nearby rock quarry within the city limits. The city has an ordinance forbidding the discharge of firearms in the city limits, and the council approved allowing the rifle frolic to take place as an exception to the ordinance.
For more information on this event, visit http://www.bardstowncolonialdays.com/.
Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin discusses the police department's annual activity report at Tuesday's council meeting. Click image to enlarge.
CABLE TV/INTERNET EXPANSION. City engineer Jeff Mills told the council that the cable TV expansion to Chaplin is advancing, and will be going live soon. He also reported that his staff continue to examine ways to lower the homes-per-mile requirement that must be reached in order to profitably serve an area of homes. He said he hoped to have more information for the council in the coming months.
In other business, the council:
Unanimously approved appointing Kevin Rogers to a four-year term on the Board of Adjustments, and reappointing Joe Hutchins to a two-year term of the Spalding Hall committee.
Accepted the annual report distributed by Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin detailing the department’s activities and initiatives for the past year. “It’s been a great year,” McCubbin said. The report will be available via PDF format on the Bardstown Police website, http://www.bardstownpolice.com/.
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