Hoptown

Mayor Wendell Lynch presented the appointments in executive orders.

Council member Alethea West asked if the city could develop a way to bring members of the public into video segments for comments during virtual meetings.

The Rev. Aaron Pettus, an employee of the college, will give a talk titled "Let There Be Peace on Earth."

Stuart Sanders will present on his book, "Murder on the Ohio Belle," for the Jan. 28 virtual program.

Among the reasons cited for the return was a decrease in local COVID-19 cases. While the incidence rate is lower than it has been all month, it remains higher than any time students were learning in person.

The first doses have gone to health care workers and, more recently, Christian County school staff, as local health officials gradually open vaccinations to local residents who fall within the next phase of the state's distribution plan.

During the most recent reporting week, Jennie Stuart's COVID-19 occupancy in the ICU and across the entire hospital reached dangerously high levels.

In 2020, Friends membership dues and donations paid for new equipment and patron services at the public library.

The Hopkinsville clinic is one of 33 regional sites in Kentucky. It will administer the Moderna vaccine.

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.

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.

Nigel Green, entrepreneur in residence for the Christian County Chamber of Commerce, created the podcast.