Business & Development

You won’t find these gifts in a big box store or from giant online retailers. They all come from a local entrepreneur, a longtime business interest in our community or a not-for-profit organization.

Researchers said downtown revitalization of commercial corridors outside metropolitan areas can foster economic revival for small businesses and make small cities more equitable, dynamic and resilient.

Shoppers at local businesses can use their receipts to be entered into a raffle for a basketful of gift cards and products from chamber members.

In a separate program, the city of Hopkinsville extended the deadline for the Small Business Stimulus program.

Many businesses are counting on Christmas sales to offset some of their losses from the coronavirus pandemic.

The opening comes just in time for the virtual Turkey Trot. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it will be run, or walked, independently rather than as a large group event on Thanksgiving morning.

The plant, in business since 1966, is currently 250,000 square feet. When the 30,000-square-foot expansion is completed, it will increase the plant’s employment to 205 workers.

Phase II of the greenway includes the 1,400-foot pedestrian bridge that spans Country Club Lane and LaFayette Road.

Southern Belle Deli and Catering Co. has moved into a building at Fifth and Main streets.

Three Hopkinsville organizations — the Hopkinsville Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County and the Pennyroyal Arts Council — are among those selected.

The auction, in its 70th year, was postponed from April because of the coronavirus, and at one point there was talk of putting it off entirely this year.

Roughly 125 items will be sold in the final night Saturday.