Business & Development

The State Farm agency recently moved from the boulevard to 11th and Virginia streets.

In addition to special sales and open houses at local businesses, Small Business Saturday will offer live music and drawings for prizes at Founders Square between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday.

Several Walmart stores closest to Hopkinsville Milling Co. quit stocking the corn meal mix that many home cooks use to make their Thanksgiving dressing. The two Hopkinsville stores recently brought Sunflour products back but other Walmart stores in Western Kentucky have not.

Downtown business owners are being sought to apply for the Destination Business Bootcamp this spring in Longmont, Colorado. Participants will have follow-up sessions in Hopkinsville.

Owners Graham and Heather Dawson have rescheduled the restaurant's opening on Sixth Street for the week before Christmas.

Rapid Response Events are planned at Hopkinsville Community College to provide information on resources for finding a new job.

The closure affects 110 hourly and 61 salaried employees at the Hopkinsville plant, which opened in 1967.

The contest took place in a former body shop garage undergoing renovations to provide an expansion space for the downtown brewery.

The Mixer, a combination restaurant, bakery and bar on Sixth Street, will be open Wednesday through Saturday.

Constructed in the mid-1880s, the building houses Southern Exposure and Arsha's House of Flowers.

Phase II adds 1.7 miles to the rail-trail. Construction is expected to take 10 months.

The iconic 1936 restaurant was heavily damaged by a fire July 4.