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Local news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Fred and Sharon Wilharm also own historic downtown properties in Springfield and Shelbyville, Tennessee.
The college's class of 2021 had more than 400 graduates.
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The 135-year-old building was sold at auction for Lester Benny Guier, a Hopkinsville attorney.
Kate Russell, a U.S. Army veteran and mother of two children, opened Hopkinsville Brewing on Fifth Street in 2016.
Sixth Street beside the Arthur Square parking lot will be closed at 2 p.m., followed by the closure of Main Street between Fifth and Seventh streets at 4 p.m.
A Tennessee Supreme Court justice from Lovingood's home county said he had COVID-19.
Bob Lovingood feature
Winter creeper starts out climbing trees as a small innocuous vine much like ivy will do. But it grows and climbs, quickly forming thick rope-like vines that deprive a tree of nutrients and sunlight.
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City council will considering the 2021-22 spending plan during Committee of the Whole meetings later in the month.
Owner Tim Goodaker, whose parents started in the dry-cleaning business in 1957, will retire. The new owners of Model Cleaners will keep the shop open on South Main Street.
Model Cleaners feature
Here begins a journey of several weeks to see what's growing on the small farms that sell directly to customers in Christian, Todd and Trigg counties.
In the early 20th century, Christian County had several prosperous thoroughbred breeding farms. Two of those farms were involved in breeding Flying Ebony and preparing the young colt to be sold as a yearling in New York.
Flying Ebony Collage
The COVID-19 pandemic affected lives all over the world in many different ways, but one of the most pressing and troubling outcomes is the rising reports of child abuse, domestic abuse and sexual abuse.
Sanctuary crisis center in Hopkinsville