Arts & Culture

Coats, jackets and other articles of warm clothing are being collected by the Knights of Columbus.

The deadline to nominate a business or a residence is Dec. 13.

For Gwenda Motley, experiencing the Christmas parade through her mom's eyes was like seeing it again as a child waiting for a glimpse of Santa Claus.

An unexpected visitor, plus a big snow, create a special holiday for the teen from Mexico staying with a large American family.

It wasn't the Hallmark scene she had experienced a year earlier. But then, in the most unlikely place, she remembered the light of Christmas.

When two little girls thought they had pegged the true identity of their church Santa, a surprise appearance put them back in the category of believers.

Every year the story was the same – her dad and her big sister turned down her ideas for the most beautiful tree and picked one they liked instead. Then her big sister wasn't home to select the tree one year, and an idea developed for a wonderful prank.

The concert marked the sixth annual Hopfest to raise money for the Alhambra Theatre

The third annual FriendsGiving features Alonzo Pennington, a popular Kentucky musician who plays a mix of blue, country and Americana music.

Homegrown Poems, co-sponsored by Hoptown Chronicle and WKMS, was presented in support of Hopkinsville's Big Read.

Gwenda Watkins Motley reflects on where she's from in one of two poems submitted for "Homegrown Poems: Your Places, Your Stories in Verse."