Speaker 1: Now we turn to the Kentucky Standard for news in
Speaker 1: Bardstown in Nelson County. Your reader today is Brian Hunt.
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Speaker 1: the addition dated May thirty. First Bourbon Capital Alliance hosts
Speaker 1: first certified Diplomat class Lazy Excited to expand Bourbon education,
Speaker 1: the Bourbon Capital Alliance certified the first round of diplomats,
Speaker 1: as the organization seeks to educate those in hospitality on
Speaker 1: everything Bourbon. Earlier this month, a dozen hospitality workers came
Speaker 1: together to become the first certified Bourbon d Capital Diplomats.
Speaker 1: The first cohort learned about the process of making Bourbon,
Speaker 1: serving Bourbon and the key components of the BCA's partner distilleries.
Speaker 1: Sam Lacey, executive director of the Bourbon Capital Alliance, said
Speaker 1: that the certification experience has been in the works for years.
Speaker 1: One of the things he said he heard often when
Speaker 1: forming the organization was the need to improve hospitality workers
Speaker 1: knowledge regarding Bourbon and parts ten. The four hour class
Speaker 1: is taught by Sydney Jones, who walks students through the lesson.
Speaker 1: The class ends with a multi question test, which, once
Speaker 1: completed and passed, earns the participant the certification and title
Speaker 1: of Bourbon Capital Diplomat. It was always in the back
Speaker 1: of our minds that we wanted to build a program
Speaker 1: specifically for hospitality industry. Lacey said. It was a big
Speaker 1: priority for our ten partner distilleries as well. Working hand
Speaker 1: in hand with them, over the course of a year,
Speaker 1: we have built a completely brand new, proprietary curriculum with
Speaker 1: our hospitality industry members in mind. Lacey said the first
Speaker 1: official class for the certification went well, with eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of the participants passing to become a diplomat. He
Speaker 1: said anyone who didn't pass would have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: take the class again in the future. Outside the initial
Speaker 1: pilot classes for the program, Lacey said they want to
Speaker 1: work with local businesses to certify their staff. He said
Speaker 1: he hopes it becomes a thing of pride for local
Speaker 1: hospital workers to be bourbon I think it should be
Speaker 1: a pride for local hospitality workers to be Bourbon Capital Diplomats.
Speaker 1: After earning the certification, each diplomat receives a special pen
Speaker 1: Lazy said he hopes this also becomes a conversation starter
Speaker 1: to talk with coworkers and others about the program. A
Speaker 1: Bourbon Capital Diplomat will not remain stagnant, Lazy said. The
Speaker 1: bourbon industry is always changing, so the need to update
Speaker 1: will be paramount. He said they've imagined the next stage
Speaker 1: in the program being Bourbon Capital Diplomat summits. These bi
Speaker 1: annual summits will bring together the diplomats and BCA distillery partners.
Speaker 1: We will give our partner distillery the ability to get
Speaker 1: directly in front of these certified diplomats, to update them
Speaker 1: on product releases, to update them on new experience says
Speaker 1: at the distillery. He said, we will keep these folks
Speaker 1: engaged through these summits. There will also be at some
Speaker 1: point in the near future some type of e newsletter
Speaker 1: to the certified diplomats that just notes things that they
Speaker 1: should be aware of and what our partner distilleries are doing.
Speaker 1: Lazy said the Bourbon Capital Diplomat program will elevate hospitality
Speaker 1: in Bardstown, giving education on Bourbon a leg of among
Speaker 1: those in the industry beyond Bargstown. He said they see
Speaker 1: the potential in expanding the career curriculum and bringing in
Speaker 1: others from out of state to become certified diplomats. However,
Speaker 1: for now, Lacey said their primary focus is Barstown. Following
Speaker 1: National Bourbon Week in June, Lacey said the Bourbon Capital
Speaker 1: Diplomat program will be top priority. In July, they will
Speaker 1: officially be launching the certification and additional media outlets will
Speaker 1: be learning about the program on June nineteenth at the
Speaker 1: Bourbon Capital Mashup. Next, New Haven begins fiscal year twenty
Speaker 1: seven budget. City SAIDs new sewer rates. New Haven took
Speaker 1: a look at next year's budget during last Thursday's meeting
Speaker 1: and held a first reading for updated sewer rates. On
Speaker 1: May twenty first, the New Haven Board of Commissioners held
Speaker 1: a first reading for the fiscal year twenty twenty seven budget.
Speaker 1: The new fiscal year budget is set to begin on
Speaker 1: July first. The city's beginning budget is twenty thousand, eight
Speaker 1: hundred sixty eight dollars. On the revenue side, the city
Speaker 1: expects two hundred sixty one thousand, three hundred seventy six
Speaker 1: dollars from taxes and fifteen thousand dollars eight fifteen thousand,
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars from licenses and fees. An additional ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars will be inter governmental revenue, and twenty two thousand,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty will come from recreation. Other revenue
Speaker 1: will garner forty seven thousand, eight hundred sixty dollars. The
Speaker 1: total revenue for the city will be three hundred seventy
Speaker 1: eight thousand, six hundred fifty four dollars. On the expenditure side,
Speaker 1: two hundred forty four thousand, five hundred is for general government,
Speaker 1: eighty nine thousand, forty eight dollars for police, and forty
Speaker 1: five thousand, one hundred six for recreation. The total or
Speaker 1: expense for fiscal year twenty seven is three hundred seventy
Speaker 1: eight thousand, six hundred fifty four dollars. The city's expenses
Speaker 1: in their roads account evens out at fifteen thousand, three
Speaker 1: hundred forty The New Haven Sewer budget was budgeted at
Speaker 1: three hundred eighty seven thousand, five hundred thirty nine dollars
Speaker 1: for expenses and revenue. In total, the city's fiscal year
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven budget amounted to seven hundred eighty one thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred thirty three dollars. I will comment on one thing.
Speaker 1: Our revenue and our expenses are going to be down
Speaker 1: this year just from the fact that we sponsor Kentucky
Speaker 1: Railway Museum and their TAP grant. Mayor Linda Mattingley said
Speaker 1: all of that has run through a city fund. This year,
Speaker 1: KRM will not have a fund to run through the
Speaker 1: city's account. A second reading and a vote on the
Speaker 1: budget will happen in June. At the next meeting. New
Speaker 1: Haven will also hold a first reading to increase sewer rates.
Speaker 1: Mattingly said the increase is to combat the rising costs
Speaker 1: of maintaining the lagoon. This will be a five percent
Speaker 1: increase for services. We've done three quarters of a million
Speaker 1: dollars of the work out of the lagoon two years ago.
Speaker 1: Mattingly said. It doesn't mean that our lift station or
Speaker 1: anything is going to hold up. Then we're going to
Speaker 1: have to stay replacing lines, et cetera. That's a never
Speaker 1: ending thing. The new rates for in city rates will
Speaker 1: be twenty one dollars forty two cents for active meter
Speaker 1: and those usage. The first two thousand gallons will now
Speaker 1: be thirty two dollars eighty nine cents. The next three
Speaker 1: thousand will be eight dollars sixty nine cents per gallon.
Speaker 1: The next five thousand gallons will be seven dollars sixty
Speaker 1: two cents per thousand, and over ten thousand gallons will
Speaker 1: be seven dollars fifteen cents per thousand gallons. The new
Speaker 1: out of city rates will be twenty one dollars forty
Speaker 1: two cents for active meter and no usage. The first
Speaker 1: two thousand gallons will be thirty four dollars seventy two cents,
Speaker 1: and the next three thousand gallons will be nine dollars
Speaker 1: sixty one cents per thousand gallons. The x five thousand
Speaker 1: gallons will be nine dollars and six cents, and anything
Speaker 1: over ten thousand will be eight dollars eighty eight cents
Speaker 1: per thousand gallons. The Board will hold a second reading
Speaker 1: of the charges at next month's meeting for approval. The
Speaker 1: City of New Haven Board of Commissioners will meet next
Speaker 1: month on June eighteenth at five pm at City Hall.
Speaker 1: Next local car lot being investigated for title fraud and theft.
Speaker 1: The Nelson County Sheriff's Office is investigating Richardson Auto Mark,
Speaker 1: a used car lot on New Haven Road that now
Speaker 1: appears to be shut down. According to investigative report by
Speaker 1: WRWDRBTV in Louisville, as many as sixteen people over the
Speaker 1: years purchase vehicles from Richardson Auto Mark but never received
Speaker 1: titles on the vehicles, creating nightmares for those who did
Speaker 1: business with the Richardsons. According to w DRB reporting, Detective
Speaker 1: Keegan Kirkpatrick, through his investigation, found that George Richardson had
Speaker 1: purchased cars at auction, but he wrote bad checks for
Speaker 1: them and as a result, never received the titles for
Speaker 1: the vehicles. In one case, wd RB reported that Richardson
Speaker 1: had written about forty eight thousand dollars in coal checks
Speaker 1: to the Indianapolis Car Exchange. George Richardson has a warrant
Speaker 1: out for his arrest in Boone County, Indiana on theft charges.
Speaker 1: The business was located at seventeen O five New Haven Road,
Speaker 1: Nelson County. Sheriff's Office says that any others who purchased
Speaker 1: vehicle from Richardson Automart and did not receive a title
Speaker 1: should contact them at five oh two three four eight
Speaker 1: one eight four zero and asked to speak with Kirkpatrick.
Speaker 1: In addition, it is recommended They also filed complaints with
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Attorney General's Office for Consumer Reprotection, which received
Speaker 1: other complaints about the business next. Bardstown budget increases for
Speaker 1: next year, but so does projected revenue. A number of
Speaker 1: key capital projects are driving the fiscal year twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven budgets for the City of Bardstown, including the Bardstown
Speaker 1: Aquatic Sports Center. Expenditures for fiscal year twenty seven are
Speaker 1: budgeted at forty six point two million dollars, an increase
Speaker 1: of five point one percent over last year, or two
Speaker 1: point two million dollars. It included in that two point
Speaker 1: two million increase our fluctuations of about one point two
Speaker 1: million and about nine hundred and eighty four thousand in
Speaker 1: salaries and retirements. Overall, the city's administration budget has a
Speaker 1: administration department has a budget of one point sixty six million,
Speaker 1: The police budget is eleven million dollars. Recreation, which includes
Speaker 1: the BASc complex, is twenty five point two million. The
Speaker 1: Fire department budget is just shy of three point eight million,
Speaker 1: The Finance department is one point seven million, the Street
Speaker 1: Department is two point one five million, and there is
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty thousand dollars committee to the Information
Speaker 1: Technology Department and thirty five thousand dollars toward maintenance of
Speaker 1: the COBEC building. The city's general fund balances thirty four
Speaker 1: point seven million dollars and it will be using some
Speaker 1: unassigned reserve funds to help pay for the budget, as
Speaker 1: well as bond sales of twenty five million dollars. The
Speaker 1: city is also funding a three percent across the board
Speaker 1: rais for employees in all departments, and there is dedicated
Speaker 1: funding of three point eight million dollars in the budget
Speaker 1: to go toward design and beginning of construction on a
Speaker 1: new Bartstown Police Department headquarters, which is scheduled to be
Speaker 1: more than twenty thousand square fees and provide space for
Speaker 1: ongoing training, community engagement, and safety. The department has outgrown
Speaker 1: its current facility, which is twenty years old. Other major
Speaker 1: projects include water and sewer upgrades and road resurfacing. In
Speaker 1: an open letter to city council and Bardstown residents, Mayor
Speaker 1: Dick Keaton said the budget is two point four million
Speaker 1: dollars then fiscal year twenty twenty six, but he notes
Speaker 1: that the city is fortunate to have a healthy balance
Speaker 1: of unrestricted reserves to help report the many capital projects
Speaker 1: budgeted for this fiscal year. Overall revenue for the city
Speaker 1: is budgeted at nineteen point two million, an increase of
Speaker 1: ten point three percent or one point eight million dollars
Speaker 1: over fiscal year twenty six. Bond sales, grants, loans, and
Speaker 1: other incoming revenue, as well as reserve funding, makes up
Speaker 1: the difference. In the combined utilities budgets. The city has
Speaker 1: designated eighteen point seven million dollars for the electric department,
Speaker 1: thirteen point four million for the water department, twenty four
Speaker 1: point nine million for the sewer department, and two point
Speaker 1: nine to five million for the garbage department. There is
Speaker 1: also a one point zero five million dollars for the
Speaker 1: Cable Internet Department as the city continues the final transition
Speaker 1: to Spectrum after the sale of its municipal cable internet system.
Speaker 1: That budget had been twelve point eight million in fiscal
Speaker 1: year twenty four and eleven point eight million in fiscal
Speaker 1: year twenty five. In total, the combined utilities budget is
Speaker 1: sixty one point four million dollars for fiscal year twenty seven,
Speaker 1: outpacing projected revenue eight million dollars with unrestricted reserves making
Speaker 1: up that difference. The revenue is set to increase by
Speaker 1: eight point four percent over last year, or four million dollars.
Speaker 1: Expenditures are down about three point nine percent from last
Speaker 1: year around two point five million dollars. Next in sports,
Speaker 1: Nelson County falls to North Hardin in Fifth Region semifinals.
Speaker 1: If the sayings score early score often were always true,
Speaker 1: Nelson County would be playing for the Fifth Region's Softball
Speaker 1: Tournament championship Friday night. Unfortunately, for the Cardinals, they were
Speaker 1: only able to do the first half of that saying
Speaker 1: Thursday night, when they went up one to zero in
Speaker 1: the Region semifinals at LaRue County High schoo North Hardin
Speaker 1: completed the second half of that old adage when it
Speaker 1: scored five in the fourth inning, which was all the
Speaker 1: Trojans needed to defeat Nelson County five to one to
Speaker 1: ended season. Like I told the girl, some days you're
Speaker 1: a dog, some days you're a hydrant. And I keep
Speaker 1: it real with them, Nelson County coach Bobby Parsons said,
Speaker 1: I don't ever have to question the effort, nothing like that.
Speaker 1: In the first at bat of the game, Nelson County
Speaker 1: junior pitcher Aubrey Robbins reached first on a dropped fly
Speaker 1: ball for an error in the right field and was
Speaker 1: able to advance to second on the play. On the
Speaker 1: next play, a fielder's choice to first, Robins advanced to
Speaker 1: third and then scored on the next at bat, scoring
Speaker 1: on a pass ball. The lead would hold until North
Speaker 1: Harden put up a five spot in the fourth three
Speaker 1: coming off eighth grader Hailey Martin single to write with
Speaker 1: the bases loaded. When the throw went home in an
Speaker 1: attempt to get the second runner, Martin advanced to second.
Speaker 1: An errant throw trying to get her out allowed a
Speaker 1: third runner to score from third, and Martin advanced to third.
Speaker 1: They strung together, strung some hits together, and we'd kind
Speaker 1: of lost discipline at the plate a little bit, swinging
Speaker 1: at some stuff out of the zone. Parson said. We
Speaker 1: just couldn't put it together. Nelson County collected three hits
Speaker 1: on the night, one each from shortstop Brent Reesius, center
Speaker 1: fielder Trinity Graham, and second baseman Calling Nolan. The team
Speaker 1: also struck out fourteen times against North hardin A's Brooklyn Carmichael.
Speaker 1: The the Trojans, who advanced to meet LaRue County in
Speaker 1: the region final Friday night, ended up with seven hints
Speaker 1: and nine strikeouts, mostly coming at the arm of Robins.
Speaker 1: North Harden chased Robins after four innings, and she gave
Speaker 1: up seven hints and five earned runs with five strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I think Aubrey was hitting too much plate and not
Speaker 1: moving it, Parson said. The curve balls are supposed to
Speaker 1: be starting in the middle and going out. I think
Speaker 1: she was hitting too much plate, and when you get
Speaker 1: too much plate, you get hit. Anybody can hit speed,
Speaker 1: he added. You've got to move it. You got to
Speaker 1: move it. Then make them Chase Brooklyn did a better
Speaker 1: job than Aubrey did tonight. That's just the story of
Speaker 1: the game. Despite the laws, Parsons said he expects the
Speaker 1: Cardinals to be in the hunt for the Reason championship
Speaker 1: next year as the team graduates two seniors catchers Nora
Speaker 1: Kate Simpson and third baseman Yorka Bartley, and returns the
Speaker 1: pitching staff. Nelson County ends the year with a twenty
Speaker 1: nine and nine record, the Cardinals' most victory since winning
Speaker 1: twenty three games way back in twenty ten. Nelson County
Speaker 1: also topped twenty wins in twenty twenty five, and they've
Speaker 1: won forty nine games over the past two seasons. Parsons
Speaker 1: is confident his bunch can take the next step in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. A little disappointed that we lost when
Speaker 1: we did, which is what it is, Parsons says. We
Speaker 1: got a great group coming back. All my pitchers are
Speaker 1: coming back. We got the kids to do it, so
Speaker 1: there's no reason why we shouldn't be back and be
Speaker 1: as good as we were this year. That's the goal anyway.
Speaker 1: Next Cards late rally falls short against Hawks. Slow starts
Speaker 1: have been in the been the bugaboo for the Nelson
Speaker 1: County baseball team all season long. Another slow start came
Speaker 1: back to bite the Cardinals Wednesday night at the worst
Speaker 1: possible time of the year. With their season on the brink,
Speaker 1: Nelson County dug itself a five run hole it couldn't
Speaker 1: completely climb out of, with LaRue County hanging on for
Speaker 1: a seven to five victory in the semi finals of
Speaker 1: the Fish Region Baseball Tournament at American Legion Park. I
Speaker 1: think evers killed us, Nelson County senior Austin Baylog said,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of that at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the game. It wasn't anything good. Then we had four
Speaker 1: errors in the third inning that just kills our momentum.
Speaker 1: On top of that, to find the strike zone a
Speaker 1: little better. The umpire zone wasn't great, but we've got
Speaker 1: to adjust to that. First year Cardinals coach Mickey Clements
Speaker 1: said his tam team digging early holes was nothing new,
Speaker 1: but he hoped it wouldn't happen on this stage, but
Speaker 1: it did. With the Rue County building a five o
Speaker 1: lead through two and a half innings, Nelson County started
Speaker 1: clawing its way back in the bottom of the third
Speaker 1: as Baylog hit a two run home run, but its
Speaker 1: comeback bid came up just short in the inm We've
Speaker 1: been calling ourselves the comeback cards all year, so even
Speaker 1: in that situation down five, I knew our guys would
Speaker 1: fight back and ship away, Clements said. We started to
Speaker 1: do that, we felt just a little bit short. The Hawks,
Speaker 1: who went on to beat Taylor count in Thursday's region
Speaker 1: final to advance to the state tournament for the third
Speaker 1: time in four years, eventually went back ahead by five
Speaker 1: runs at seventy two after Cole Miller hit an RBI
Speaker 1: single and came around to score after the Cardinals threw
Speaker 1: the ball out of play on an error along the
Speaker 1: third base side of field. It's been like that all year,
Speaker 1: Clement said, even in the district tournament against Washington County.
Speaker 1: We went to the fifth or sixth inning before we
Speaker 1: got going. But they thrive off of adrenaline. Today it
Speaker 1: just bit us in the butt. Nelson County made things
Speaker 1: interesting in the seventh, nearly pulling off another late game comeback.
Speaker 1: Jacob Bryant walked and Baylog was hit by pitch with
Speaker 1: two outs. Deacon Mentor followed with a no doubt homer
Speaker 1: to left center fields make it seven to five, breathing
Speaker 1: new life into the Cardinals dugout, but the Hawk's Creed
Speaker 1: Price induced a pop fly to end in beginning a
Speaker 1: Nelson County season to a close. It was very frustrating,
Speaker 1: Baylov said. We know we're better as a team than
Speaker 1: we showed early on, and we have been playing a
Speaker 1: lot better than that here lately. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I guess this game just got to us, But that's
Speaker 1: all right. It happens. And as LaRue County players celebrated,
Speaker 1: Nelson County players were left wondering what if had the
Speaker 1: Cardinals been able to get the price earlier, maybe they'd
Speaker 1: be ones playing for a region title instead. Their season
Speaker 1: ends with the twenty one to fourteen record. If we
Speaker 1: start with the beast hot, I think we win this game.
Speaker 1: Baylov said, it's the same thing in other games we've
Speaker 1: lost this year. By the third inning, we got our
Speaker 1: bats going, and this game, I got our bats going
Speaker 1: in the four. Then Deacon forgot us going in the seven,
Speaker 1: but by then it was too late. Clements knew his
Speaker 1: squad would fight, just like they have in other games
Speaker 1: when they've fallen behind, but this one stings, especially because
Speaker 1: it happened on the big stage. In the region tournament,
Speaker 1: Nelson County lost in the semi finals round for the
Speaker 1: second straight season. This team has fought through a lot
Speaker 1: of this year, and they've continued to show up every day.
Speaker 1: Clements said, that's all you can ask from these guys.
Speaker 1: It's been a blessing to have a group like this
Speaker 1: for my first year as head coach. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot of guys who are moving on, but I'm very
Speaker 1: proud of each and every one of them. We put
Speaker 1: together a good year and we've set the standard going forward.
Speaker 1: Nelson County loses eight seniors to graduation in Bay Laws Bryant,
Speaker 1: Charlie Buckman, Dylan Colter, Ryan Hickerson, Clay LaRue, Chase Night,
Speaker 1: and Tate Milbourne. This is all the time we have
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