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Oakley retired last year as principal of Indian Hills Elementary School.
Several streets in the Springmont and Hunting Creek neighborhoods are slated to be repaved.
Jamie Lienberger sees the city spending too much money and said she would look for ways to save.
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.
Winners will read from their poems and essays for the event that starts at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
The forums will feature 23 candidates in races for city council, fiscal court, sheriff, Hopkinsville mayor, state representative, county clerk and county judge-executive.
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In this week's Sunday Brew, editor Jennifer P. Brown reveals the answers to last week's word quiz and fills readers in on a project we've been working on with a local high school student.
In the last decade, Hopkinsville’s downtown has experienced a resurgence. It has mostly been driven by women-led businesses.
Poston, the Dean of Black Journalists, began a career at the New York Post in the mid-1930s and retired in 1972.
Individuals and church groups can help by contributing desserts, side dishes or bread for the meal.