All public and private schools in Christian County will be closed again Wednesday because of icy road conditions and the potential for more precipitation. Hopkinsville Community College also will be closed.
“The decision to remain closed to in-person instruction is due to the icy conditions and the forecast of additional winter weather for the area this evening and overnight,” an official with Christian County Public Schools said in a press release Tuesday afternoon.
The public schools will continue with non-traditional instruction for the second day, as will Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School and Heritage Christian Academy. On its Facebook page, University Heights Academy said that Wednesday will be a traditional snow day.
Roads and sidewalks were coated in icy when drivers got out for the morning commute on Tuesday. Salt crews with plows cleared streets and roads but slippery conditions that made driving hazardous persisted in some areas, especially in neighborhoods and on side streets, throughout the day. A dusting of snow fell in Hopkinsville early Tuesday evening.
The National Weather Service forecast says there is a chance of more precipitation with limited accumulation of snow, freezing rain and sleet late Tuesday. There is also a chance of freezing rain again late Wednesday and early Thursday.
The Hopkinsville Municipal Center will again open two hours late, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, a spokeswoman in the mayor’s office said.
Hoptown Chronicle will update this list of weather-related closures and cancellations as information becomes available.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
