Julia Hunter

Football, which is the only athletic program actively competing, will be given the opportunity to finish out the season.

Business owners should plan to allow employees to work from home next week, if possible, and reschedule, postpone or cancel all events. Community members should not attend — or host — gatherings of any size. They are also asked to reduce in-person shopping and dining, avoid non-essential activities and prioritize businesses that enforce mask mandates and other safety measures.

Despite rising local case numbers, Christian County schools — like some others in the state — have opted to continue in-person learning. It’s a position that local school officials this week maintained.

Hopkinsville's downtown trick-or-treat event will be replaced by the first-ever "Halloween Scare-A-Van," a drive-thru event set for 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 at Trail of Tears Park.

The funds will be paid on a first-come, first-served basis.

Twenty-four of the 25 people who've died locally from COVID-19 have had underlying health conditions. Hoptown Chronicle explores what those conditions have been and why it's important.

On the health department's recommendation, the district has asked the players to quarantine after exposure to a Calloway County High School football player who has since tested positive.

The report pushed the local total since the pandemic began to 1,185.

In spite of state guidance recommending remote learning only and the suspension of all school-related athletic and extracurricular activities, Christian County Public Schools continued in-person instruction Friday and had made no announcement to cancel a football game set for Saturday against a school from another county with a "critical" level of community transmission.

Thursday's total was the second-highest number of cases announced in a single day.

The death of a 49-year-old woman marks the county's youngest virus-related victim to-date.

The seven-day rolling average of new cases grew to 16 — double what it was two weeks ago and just shy of the highest average to-date.