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During the forum, candidates discussed several issues that residents told Hoptown Chronicle mattered the most to them.

District officials said the potential for damaging winds posed a threat to the safety of students and drivers on buses.

The Kentucky League of Cities opposed the bill, saying it violates the home-rule powers of local governments.

Earlier this month, Republicans overrode Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of their resoltuion to end the COVID-19 state of emergency. Beshear said it would take food benefits from Kentuckians. Re

Tessa Duvall, who previously reported on Hopkinsville and Christian County for the Kentucky New Era and now works for the Courier Journal, recently wrote about what it has been like for the sole reporter at the Mayfield Messenger.

Winners will read from their poems and essays for the event that starts at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

The bill went through revisions before being heard by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, changes that were not published online for the public to see until after the committee passed it by a 9-2 vote.

The Office of Rural Prosperity would coordinate rural economic development across government and would be led by a presidential appointee.

The forums will feature 23 candidates in races for city council, fiscal court, sheriff, Hopkinsville mayor, state representative, county clerk and county judge-executive.

In the last decade, Hopkinsville’s downtown has experienced a resurgence. It has mostly been driven by women-led businesses.

Senate Bill 167 would give judge-executives in most counties in the state the ability to decide who sits on public library boards.

Poston, the Dean of Black Journalists, began a career at the New York Post in the mid-1930s and retired in 1972.