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Local news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

As we prepare to ring in the New Year, Hoptown Chronicle is looking back at some moments from the last year, told visually through photography.
While the work is just beginning, storm victims are being encouraged to guard against hiring unreliable contractors. 
Rutland's friends knew him as a natural storyteller, and he had an impressive memory of local political figures and events.
HBC owners Kate Russell and Joey Medeiros brewed The Eleventh Hour in Boston.
The group out of Savannah, Georgia will play gospel and big band music Jan. 8 at the Alhambra Theatre.
In 1932, Hopkinsville photographer L.D. Martin captured a night scene when local merchants first decorated downtown with Christmas lights.
A Facebook group formed last week aims to help reunite Kentucky tornado victims with irreplaceable memories and their pets.
Christian County was added to the list of counties eligible for federal disaster aid on Thursday.
State officials have long considered tornadoes to pose a significant risk across western Kentucky. Christian County is among the counties where the threat is especially high.
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The Christian County distillery donated its first ever Barrel Pick Experience for the auction.
As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.