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.

Prosperity had Depression on the run, at least in spirit, when the Chamber of Commerce organized Hopkinsville's first big Christmas parade.
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Several Walmart stores closest to Hopkinsville Milling Co. quit stocking the corn meal mix that many home cooks use to make their Thanksgiving dressing. The two Hopkinsville stores recently brought Sunflour products back but other Walmart stores in Western Kentucky have not.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Baptist churches in the region established an organization to create the private girls school in 1854. The main campus was on West 15th Street between Main and Canton streets.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Downtown business owners are being sought to apply for the Destination Business Bootcamp this spring in Longmont, Colorado. Participants will have follow-up sessions in Hopkinsville.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Owners Graham and Heather Dawson have rescheduled the restaurant's opening on Sixth Street for the week before Christmas.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Rapid Response Events are planned at Hopkinsville Community College to provide information on resources for finding a new job.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The closure affects 110 hourly and 61 salaried employees at the Hopkinsville plant, which opened in 1967.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Taylor is among a small number of transition team members who are not from the Louisville-Lexington-Frankfort triangle.
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Thomas Jefferson Baugh, who became an electrician after working for a phone company, put the colored lights on the city's tree at Peace Park.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Gov. Matt Bevin requested the recanvass after the election night result showed him losing to Steve Beshear by less than 1 percentage point statewide.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The third annual FriendsGiving features Alonzo Pennington, a popular Kentucky musician who plays a mix of blue, country and Americana music.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The Veterans Day storm left a sheet of ice on many secondary streets and county roads.
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