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.

In several months, the Kentucky New Era will move its offices from East Ninth Street to downtown Hopkinsville. The newspaper last called downtown home nearly 50 years ago.
By Jennifer P. Brown
New Era
The Corner Coffeehouse in downtown Hopkinsville is moving to a new location. The new space will be larger and will allow for more seating.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Hot coffee steam
Edgar Cayce has been called the father of holistic medicine, a medical clairvoyant and the sleeping prophet. Learn why at the next History on Tap.
By Jennifer P. Brown
clairvoyant Edgar Cayce at desk
Griffin’s Studio, the gift store at 100 E. Sixth St., is now offering pottery painting for drop-in customers and special events.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Griffins Studio
Hopkinsville City Council members were asked to consider a pit bull ban after two attacks in the past week left three people with serious injuries.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Despite a push starting in the early 1990s to renovate Attucks school, the building continues to decline. Can it be saved?
By Jennifer P. Brown
attucks high school hopkinsville
The old, vacant pawn shop building on East Sixth Street will be demolished and replaced with a pocket park. It'll be the city's second pocket park downtown.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Landscape architect Lynn Reeves provided this preliminary plan for the pocket park to the Local Development Corp., which owns the Sixth Street property where the park would be constructed. (Local Development Corp. image)
Sudden Service, Hopkinsville's first gas station, was dedicated Friday following a renovation project fueled in large part by volunteers.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Sudden Service building Hopkinsville
Hopkinsville Brewing Company owner Kate Russell gives Hoptown Chronicle a quick tour of the brewery’s recently acquired space.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Hopkinsville Brewing Co. building
A free public parking lot being constructed on the site of the old Peter Postell building at Sixth and Virginia streets could be completed by mid-summer.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Sixth Virginia parking lot
Dr. Edward B. Smith, who teaches theater and film at Georgetown College, will portray Adolph Rupp on March 11, at the Hopkinsville library.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Hopkinsville Christian County Kentucky library
Hopkinsville Brewing Co. owners Kate Russell and Joey Medeiros have purchased the auto body shop building that adjoins the brewery on Fifth Street.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Hopkinsville Brewing_May 2018