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The big list: Here is what’s happening in Hopkinsville for the holidays
Hopkinsville organizations, including schools, churches, clubs, businesses and arts groups, are planning numerous holiday events for Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year in Hopkinsville. Here’s the place to keep tabs on all the events offered through the holidays. Do you know of a holiday event not listed here? Email...
‘Operation Counter-Mold:’ The hidden battle in military homes
Editor’s note: Since this investigation was published Oct. 24 in Rolling Stone the Army has offered to move both of the Fort Campbell families into new homes. The story is republished from POGO, The Project On Government Oversight. On the weekends, Aubrey Metzler lets out her frustration with military...
Kentucky awards first 26 medical cannabis licenses after lottery drawing
LOUISVILLE — Kentucky awarded its first 26 medical cannabis licenses through a lottery held Monday at the Kentucky Lottery Corporation in Louisville. The first round of licenses, drawn by state lottery staff, went to 16 cultivators and 10 processors. Monday’s winners will get an email within 24 hours and...
Holiday Hopfest concert to feature Max Weinberg’s Jukebox
The band Max Weinberg’s Jukebox will play for this year’s Hoptown Holiday Hopfest at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 30, at the Alhambra Theatre. Weinberg, the band’s leader, is the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and the former bandleader for Conan O’Brien’s television programs.
Plans set for Hopkinsville Christmas Parade on Dec. 14
U.S. Army veteran John T. Brame Jr., longtime commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1913, will serve as grand marshal of Hopkinsville’s Christmas Parade on Dec. 14. The Hopkinsville Division of Parks and Recreation announced Brame’s selection to lead the parade. The parade theme will be “Let There Be Peace.”
Registration open for 23rd annual Turkey Trot
Registration is open for Hopkinsville’s 23rd annual Turkey Trot, the Thanksgiving morning 5K that attracts hundreds of runners and walkers — plus babies in strollers, children in wagons and leashed dogs. There’s no fee to participate but Hopkinsville Parks and Recreation encourages advance registration so they can plan...
Friends of the Library supports mission of Hopkinsville’s public library
Do you have special memories of Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library? Perhaps a school field trip? Or maybe snuggling up for storytime? Or maybe you discovered the library as an adolescent or adult?. Whatever your introduction to our local library, it probably holds a special place in your heart. The Hopkinsville-Christian...
‘Hang in there,’ is a good approach in most pursuits
When David Thurmond stepped onto the Alhambra Theatre stage Friday afternoon to introduce a master dance class for roughly 30 young people, he got straight to his point about how things would go if they should ever audition as professional dancers. “From the moment that you step on stage, I”m...
Jennie Stuart slates community meeting on Deaconess proposal
Jennie Stuart Health will host an informational session at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, concerning plans for Evansville, Indiana-based Deaconess Health to acquire Hopkinsville’s hospital. Jennie Stuart board chair Leslie Carroll announced the meeting in an opinion article about plans to join Deaconess. The meeting, which is open to...
Hopkinsville’s 50th Unity Breakfast recognizes good works and volunteers in community
When Francene Gilmer moved back to her hometown, she wasn’t necessarily looking to dive into a new job and community service. She had returned to Hopkinsville because she wanted to care for her aging mother. But soon enough Gilmer had a job as executive director of the Christian County...
Hopkinsville museum selected for Preservation Kentucky award
The Pennyroyal Area Museum has been selected for a state preservation award in recognition of the “renovation and stewardship of the former U.S. Post Office building that houses” the museum and its exhibits and collections. Preservation Kentucky executive director Elizabeth A. “Betsy” Hatfield recently notified the Museums of...
‘The Price of Power:’ A long, objective look at Mitch McConnell by a veteran D.C. journalist
Mitch McConnell has been the subject of four biographies: one by himself, one by a critic, one by a friend who became a critic, and now, at last, one by a top-rank Washington journalist with an objective account of “one of the most consequential senators in American history,” as the dust jacket accurately puts it.
Lawmakers urged to ease criminal expungement process for a half-million eligible Kentuckians
LOUISVILLE — When James Sweasy was 19 years old, he was convicted of a felony related to marijuana and spent the next 20 years of his life held back by his record. He got a lawyer and started the “multi-months” process of expungement when he was in his early 40s, he said.
Commentary: Our commitment to Jennie Stuart Health and the Hopkinsville community
The Trustees of Jennie Stuart Health are guided by our duty to support the health system’s critical role in our community. We are stewards of a cherished asset that has both ensured the health of our community and served as an anchor of the local economy for more than a century. This is a responsibility we do not take lightly.
Railroad services firm submits high bid for Hopkinsville’s L&N Train Depot
A high bid of $175,000 to purchase Hopkinsville’s L&N Train Depot came from a railroad services firm whose owner said he would initially open a travel agency in the historic property with long-term consideration for making the depot a passenger train stop again. B. Allen Brown II, president and...
Everything you need to know about Amendment 2 in Kentucky
Constitutional Amendment 2 will ask Kentucky voters in the upcoming election a seemingly simple question with significant ramifications for Kentucky’s education system: Should the legislature be able to provide financial support for the education of students outside of public schools?. The state’s constitution currently prevents the legislature from using...
Crop cashed out? Fewer than 1,000 Ky. farms are still growing tobacco 20 years after major reform
The late summer heat in Kentucky often brings with it the smell of tobacco. The plant has been a cash crop for the Bluegrass State for well over a century and, every August and September, smoke billows from barns where farmers and their families have cut, hung and cured their tobacco crops for decades.
A Guide to Voting
You can download the sample ballot here. Christian County voters have three options: voting absentee by mail-in ballot; casting their ballot early in-person; or voting at one of 13 polling places on Election Day. ABSENTEE. Kentucky voters who want to cast an absentee mail-in ballot in the November general election...
Kentucky highway workers helping North Carolina crews with storm recovery
Kentucky has sent around 150 state highway workers to help assist with flood recovery in North Carolina. Transportation Secretary Jim Gray had a chance to spend some time in Asheville this past weekend with the Kentucky workers. The transportation secretary said seven crews are helping out around Asheville and another...
Hopkinsville’s downtown trick-or-treating set on Halloween
Business and office workers in downtown Hopkinsville will be handing out candy to Halloween trick-or-treaters from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31. Organized by Hopkinsville Parks and Recreation, the annual event typically attracts several hundred children and their adult relatives. Trick-or-treaters are invited to walk along Main Street from Sixth Street to 14th Street.
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