The storm didn't affect day-to-day operations at the Aaron McNeil House, which received a call Wednesday from Tyson Foods seeking to donate approximately 80,000 pounds of protein to food banks in western Kentucky.
Preliminary data from the National Weather Service indicates the tornado that leveled much of Mayfield and Dawson Springs was an EF4. The weather service is still surveying the damages to determine the severity of the other tracks, including one that crossed South Christian from LaFayette to Pembroke.
bell hooks, a Hopkinsville native, was an internationally renowned poet, author, feminist, professor, cultural critic and social activist. She died on Dec. 15, 2021, at the age of 69.
A former special education teacher and guidance counselor for Christian County Public Schools, Poindexter had been serving as interim principal at HMS since August.
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.
