Hoptown

The 2022 auctioned raised roughly 35% more than the amount collected last year.

Through five nights, the auction had earned nearly 90% of the record that Rotarians set in 2021, when they raised $397,832.

Turner, the Christian County historian, joined the Hopkinsville Rotary Club in 1971 and is the current longest serving member.

Two services are planned on May 6 at the Thomas L. Riley Lecture Hall.

At the halfway mark of the six-night auction, Rotarians are well ahead of the mark set on the same night a year ago.

Chris Jung will give the program on the horse that had ties to Christian County.

The $1.2 million investment at Legacy Metals will provide a facility to develop and trim roofing and siding panels for the building industry.

The auction continues nightly through Saturday at the Memorial Building downtown.

The dinner and a silent auction will raise money to help send children to camp.

Community members can join the effort downtown at 9 a.m. on Friday, April 22.

Rotarians raised $143,822 on Monday and presented the club's first Rotary Foundation grant to Men 2 Be.

A photograph that ran on the front page of the Kentucky New Era on April 6, 1953, illuminates a joyful moment in Hopkinsville's history — but not a inclusive one.