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A former special education teacher and guidance counselor for Christian County Public Schools, Poindexter had been serving as interim principal at HMS since August.

Holiday shipment deadlines recommended by the U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx are fast approaching.

The exhibit features work representing locations in Hopkinsville and Christian County.

Two ceremonies are planned on Dec. 10 in the Thomas L. Riley Lecture Hall.

The portraits are an expression of the community's care for families who lost loved ones to the virus, said one of the painters who helped organize the project for the Hopkinsville Art Guild.

Several promotions and community activities are slated Saturday to promote small, independent businesses.

A $10 million grant that Christian County Public Schools received in October is not part of the federal relief money now in question in school districts, said Superintendent Chris Bentzel.

The Wisconsin-based company dropped Christian County from consideration on Oct. 4.

The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, at Hopkinsville Brewing Co.

Other new certificates include training in payroll accounting, green building technology, robotics and medical fields.

Major, who grew up in the Beverly community, earned his doctorate in theology at Vanderbilt University. He officiated at hundreds of weddings, baptisms and funerals between 1948 and 1993.

The driver shortage isn’t a new problem, but the coronavirus pandemic was a “perfect storm” that escalated the challenge of staffing 96 bus routes in Christian County, said Mike Brumley, who has been the district’s transportation director for 12 years.