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.

Michael Venable will relocate his agency to a century-old building under renovation on South Virginia Street.
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The Pioneers will begin selling barbecue sandwiches at 4 p.m. Thursday. Their History on Tap presentation will follow at 6:30 p.m.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The local employees are among 20,000 in the Southeast who began their strike at midnight Friday over a contract dispute with the company.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
By Jennifer P. Brown
A carnival game attracts festival-goers at the 2019 Summer Salute in Hopkinsville. (Photo by Jennifer P. Brown
Several streets around Founders Square will be closed to accommodate the downtown festival that runs Friday and Saturday.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The work will cost an estimated $175,000 to $182,000, Community and Development Services officials explained at an Inner-City Residential Enterprise Zone board meeting.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Hopkinsville City Council will have to approve the Inner-City REZ board's plan to use roughly $175,000 on demolition projects.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Pioneers Inc., established in 1952, is a civic organization of African-American men. Their catering and barbecue business supports their charity work in the community.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Steve Luxenberg's talk will focus on Kentuckian John Marshall Harlan, the lone dissenter in the U.S. Supreme Court case that justified racial segregation.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The center will broaden HCC’s capacity to teach technical skills for health, agriculture and industrial fields.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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The Lights Out Festival on the grounds of Casey Jones Distillery is a fund-raiser for the Pennyroyal Arts Council.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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Kirkman Terrace will have a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments for renters who are at least 55 years old and meet income restrictions.
By Jennifer P. Brown
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