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.

Key information about the company being privately held and in business for 75 years narrows the field of possibilities to a subsidiary of Rosen's Diversified Inc.
By Jennifer P. Brown
American Foods Group sign
A company based in Green Bay, Wisconsin, wants to build a 500,000-square-foot beef processing plant on the edge of Pembroke. Some of the incentives for the company are expected to come from Hopkinsville City Council.
By Jennifer P. Brown
A speaker raises concerns about a proposed beef processing plant during a meeting Monday, Sept. 27, in the old Pembroke school gymnasium that is less than 2 miles from the proposed plant on John Rivers Road. (Photo by Jennifer P. Brown)
The residential ministry for women coming out of homelessness and incarceration seeks volunteers to help in the program's home and thrift store.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Logo Grace and Mercy feature
The award promoting attractive properties went to LuLu's Place, Hopkinsville Brewing and Lamb Funeral Home.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Hopkinsville Beautification Award recipients
The popular true-crime program on NBC has titled the episode "The Evil That Watches."
By Jennifer P. Brown
pembroke water tower
Cattle would be trucked to the site near the CSX rail line between Hopkinsville and Pembroke and slaughtered in a 500,000-square-foot facility. Other details are being kept secret, in part because the company secured non-disclosure agreements with local elected officials and industrial recruiters.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Land currently planted in soybeans on John Rivers Road adjacent to the CSX rail line a few miles outside Pembroke is being considered for a 500,000-square-foot meat processing plant. (Photo by Jennifer P. Brown)
The Future Grad Event will be in the Emerging Technologies Building.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Hopkinsville-Community-College-sign
The Land Bank Authority acquires and demolishes tax-delinquent, inner-city properties with a goal to convert lots into useful properties for new housing, economic development and recreational spaces. 
By Jennifer P. Brown
Community Development Services
The deceased was a 34-year-old woman who had no underlying health conditions. She had not received a COVID-19 vaccination.
By Jennifer P. Brown
health department
In his youth, and perhaps later, Cassius Clay — who went on to become one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century — spent time in Hopkinsville visiting relatives.
By Jennifer P. Brown
cassius clay with trainer
Robert Harper, of Hopkinsville Milling Co., will talk about his family's business during the Sept. 28 History on Tap at Hopkinsville Brewing Co.
By Jennifer P. Brown
Hopkinsville Milling Sunflower Corn Meal Mix
The virtual forum will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21.
By Jennifer P. Brown
league women voters logo feature