Jennifer P. Brown

Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation’s board.

Local private schools, like Christian County Public Schools, not following request to suspend sports until Oct. 2

As the county's coronavirus incidence rate reached the "critical" level on a state grid, local health officials asked schools and other groups to curtail activities.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Christian County Clerk’s Office plans to open 7 polling places on Election Day

Early, in-person voting will begin Oct. 13 at the courthouse and the sheriff's department.

By Jennifer P. Brown

City rec, YMCA suspend programs following health department’s new COVID guidance

Christian County Public Schools announced the district would not comply with the county health director's request to temporarily halt athletics and extracurricular activities.

By Jennifer P. Brown

County health director stresses ‘critical state’ of COVID-19, issues new guidance

Kayla Bebout called on residents to discontinue social gatherings, sporting events and extracurricular activities. A spokesman for the school system said the district would not follow that advice.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Local superintendent sticking with plan to keep students in class

County Health Director Kayla Bebout advised the school district to follow the guidance for remote instruction when the county's incidence rate went into the critical red level as defined by the state Department of Education and the Department of Public Health.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Health department provides flu shots at drive-thru clinic

Flu shots are also available at the health department without an appointment.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Voter registration event Tuesday at Founders Square

Members of AKA and League of Women Voters are leading the effort.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Rotary Auction pulls in a surprising total

The auction, in its 70th year, was postponed from April because of the coronavirus, and at one point there was talk of putting it off entirely this year.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Hopkinsville group gathers to honor Ginsburg legacy

Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t advocate only for women’s rights. In fact, in the 1970s she successfully argued before the Supreme Court that a widowed father deserved Social Security survivor benefits after his wife died in childbirth.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Ginsburg memorial tonight in Hopkinsville

Similar memorial gatherings are planned across the country at the same time.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Rotary Auction heads into final night; grill crew selling the last Boston butts

Roughly 125 items will be sold in the final night Saturday.

By Jennifer P. Brown

Rotarians hit the $100,000 mark and head into final two nights of auction

The focus this year is to keep the auction tradition going and raise as much money as possible for the Rotary Scholars program at Hopkinsville Community College

By Jennifer P. Brown