The Taste of the Town, featuring food trucks, music and dancing, is planned at Founders Square, and special programming will happen at the Pennyroyal Area Museum.
Massachusetts-based Ascend Elements announced in 2022 it would invest $1 billion dollars to build an EV battery recycling plant in Hopkinsville. The company has since taken Chapter 11 bankruptcy and settled false claims allegations with the U.S. Department of Justice. Construction of the mega factory remains stalled, but with new owners who say the project will be finished.
In a shift for the traditionally raucous event, the picnic’s political chairman Steven Elder said chants would no longer be allowed that are designed solely to drown out a speaker.