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Local news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

The Hopkinsville clinic is one of 33 regional sites in Kentucky. It will administer the Moderna vaccine.
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Ted Poston wrote the fictionalized accounts of his childhood growing up in segregated Hopkinsville as a personal project during his newspaper career. They were first published as a collection a decade after his death.
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The district cited the recent surge of coronavirus cases, capacity limits at Jennie Stuart Medical Center and 82 virus cases and quarantines of CCPS staff.
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Nigel Green, entrepreneur in residence for the Christian County Chamber of Commerce, created the podcast.
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The program will be shown during Monday's League of Women Voters meeting.
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In addition to awarding grants to 202 businesses that qualified for the stimulus money, the city received more than 40 applications from entities that don't have a business license.
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The 12 council members and several city employees made up most of the appointments. Others were filled by local residents.
The postponement was attributed to an "unprecedented spike in COVID cases and hospitalizations over the last 48 hours."
Although the department is still working through phase 1a of the state's vaccine distribution plan, it expects to move to phase 1b in early February.
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For the fourth day in a row, COVID-19 hospitalizations at Jennie Stuart have reached a record high.
The newly elected council will conduct its first meeting of 2021 by video conference.
District officials announced two games will be delayed and two others are canceled.
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