Business & Development

Planters Bank will provide a $1,700 tuition grant to each of the participants to cover their attendance at a boot camp in Longmont, Colorado.

The Sixth Street restaurant is in the former Young Hardware building.

Bernard Standard is retiring after 29 years with the commission. Luna will take her new post next month.

Twenty employees of the Kentucky New Era will work from the former J.C. Penney building that has been under renovation for about six months.

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.