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The protest drew international attention, helped win miners a portion of their back pay, and highlighted the state’s failure to collect bond payments from companies like Blackjewel, as the law requires.
Blackjewel miners
An oral history tells the story of Hal and Bettye Thurmond and how the Catholic faith led them to be civil rights leaders in Hopkinsville.
Hal and Bettye Thurmond
Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" is the featured work for Hopkinsville's sixth Big Read.
Our Town Big Read graphic
Nominations for the Hal and Bettye Thurmond Award must be submitted to the Human Rights Commission by 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4.
Hopkinsville Human Rights Commission
Kentuckians who are currently 17 years old but will turn 18 by Election Day are among those eligible to register to vote.
Voting voter buttons
The $4.64 million project will extend the city’s rail-trail an additional 1.7 miles, taking it from Pardue Lane to Foston Chapel Road near Eagle Way bypass.
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Musicians Daniel Kelly and Fred Johnson mix lines from Shakespeare plays with jazz melodies in a performance that encourages audience participation.
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Under Kentucky law, the attorney general is the first line of review for disputes between citizens and public agencies concerning access to public records and meetings.
Scales of justice
According to the Kentucky Incentives for Prevention survey, 26.7% of the state's high-school seniors reported they had vaped in the past 30 days in 2018, up from 12.2% in the 2016 survey.
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The group’s research implies a correlation between high rates of jailing in a county, and that same area not having the resources to deal with health problems or economic inequality, a spokeswoman said.
jail cell
Unusually wet conditions earlier this year delayed some planting on Kentucky farms, and now the long, dry spell may affect some of those late-planted crops.
z-Drought
There’s still an “enormous” amount of risk growing hemp this year in part because of a lack of crop insurance and the learning curve to cultivate hemp for many hemp growers, a college official said.
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