Jennifer P. Brown

Volunteers serve meals at the dinner church at 5 p.m. every Thursday.

The health department urged local residents to be aware the virus is still active and requires safety measures to help curb its spread.

Since the start of the outbreak, 123 people in Christian County have recovered from COVID-19, the health department reported.

After a voter receives and completes the ballot, it can be returned in the mail or dropped at locations established in each county. If it is mailed, it must be postmarked no later than June 23. Two locations are available where voters can personally drop off ballots — at the Christian County Courthouse on South Main Street or at the drive-thru lane at the new Christian County Sheriff’s Department on West Seventh Street.

Public health officials are urging people to get tested for COVID-19 — in addition to frequent hand-washing, wearing a mask and social distancing — to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Some people with no symptoms have been infected but don’t know they carry the virus and could spread it to others.

The county total includes 37 active cases and 115 people who have recovered from the virus.

As of Friday, the state's total number of coronavirus cases was 12,166. At least 3,390 people in Kentucky have recovered from the virus.

The Hopkinsville store is one of six in Kentucky that will close as part of J.C. Penney's debt restructuring plan under bankruptcy protection. It has operated in Hopkinsville since the early 1930s.

Patterson Tilford Frazer Jr. was born on a tenant farm at Allensville in 1889. He earned his medical degree in Nashville and later practiced medicine in Hopkinsville, where he installed a swimming pool for black residents.

Among 33 active cases of COVID-19, there were 27 people in the age range of 22 to 59, the health department reported.

At least 4,103 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in the county. That includes 2,284 by the health department and 1,819 by Jennie Stuart. Additional testing has been done through local physicians’ offices and medical clinics, but those numbers are not being reported.

In the first eight days of June, the county recorded 22 new cases. That is approximately 15% of the total number of cases since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in mid-March. The only other period with more cases locally was April 1-8, when 33 cases were reported.