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Today's Features

  • Business is sweet

    Larry Marks knows bees. Been working with them since he was a 12-year old, helping out his father and grandfather, also beekeepers, the way his grandfather helped out his grandfather before him.

    “It’s just one of those things I just enjoy,” said Marks, 70, of Bloomfield, whose three boys also help him in carrying on the family tradition.

    At his peak, Marks maintained 175 hives in locations in Nelson and Taylor counties, but that’s down to 165 these days. He started with two.

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  • Bardstown recognized as cultural district

    Well-proportioned in all things that make Kentucky unique — from bourbon production to horse-drawn carriage rides to the physical namesake of the state song “My Old Kentucky Home” — Bardstown boasts bluegrass culture at every corner.  

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  • 40 years ago May 1973

    40 YEARS AGO
    MAY 1973

    Roberts to be County Judge
    Mattingly, Wimsett, Conder win

    Nelson County will have a new County Judge for the four-year term beginning Jan. 1, 1974, as result of Tuesday’s heavy Democratic primary balloting. With no Republican candidates, nomination by the Democrats is equivalent to election.

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  • People and Places: Relay for Life 2013
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  • Top tips for grilled fruits and vegetables

    I shared some tips with you a couple weeks ago about grilling meats but there’s more to summer barbecue season than burgers and steaks!

    Why turn on the stove to cook your veggies when you have a perfectly good hot grill already prepped? Never mind the fact that grilled veggies and fruits taste like something out of Heaven — if you know how to cook them properly!

    Some of my best produce grilling tips include:

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  • Looking Back

    Bob Kiefer fingerprints 5- year-old Christopher Culver. Christopher's mother, Betty Culver, watched her son. This photo was originally published the week of Sept. 19, 1983.

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  • 20 YEARS AGO MAY 1993

    20 YEARS AGO
    MAY 1993

    1,478-acre farm brings $2.26
    million
    On Saturday Joe Pat Downs’ struggle to hang onto a piece of ground in Nelson County was finally over.
    The huge property once known as Hardscrabble Farms was sold at auction, chunk by chunk. The sale was a win for Century 21 Joe Guy Hagan Realtors, who made a nice piece of change on the deal.
    The 1,478-acre property brought a total of $2.26 million, according to Pat Hagan of Century 21.

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  • Does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

    ‘Iron Man 3’

    Film Rating: 7

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  • Dogwood days of spring

     Sister Teresa Kotturan was enjoying her evening walk at the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, especially the fragrance of the flowering trees along her path.

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  • RELIGION NOTES

    St. Monica dinner

    St. Monica Church, 407 S. Third St., in Bardstown, will have a Sunday dinner fundraiser 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in the Parish Hall. Choice of chicken or pork chops and two sides for $8. Dine-in or carry out.  Call 348-5250 or 460-6621 for more information.

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