Hoptown

Roughly 125 items will be sold in the final night Saturday.

In spite of state guidance recommending remote learning only and the suspension of all school-related athletic and extracurricular activities, Christian County Public Schools continued in-person instruction Friday and had made no announcement to cancel a football game set for Saturday against a school from another county with a "critical" level of community transmission.

On Thursday, the incidence rate was 28, well within the "critical" category under which guidance says to switch to remote learning only.

The focus this year is to keep the auction tradition going and raise as much money as possible for the Rotary Scholars program at Hopkinsville Community College

Thursday's total was the second-highest number of cases announced in a single day.

Since Tuesday, the number of people in the district under quarantine has doubled, while the number of positive cases has grown from 10 to 24.

The auction raises money for Rotary Scholars at Hopkinsville Community College. The program offers a two-year, full scholarship to every graduating senior from a high school in Christian County.

Many of the cases have occurred among residents of nursing homes, including Christian Health Center, where 31 residents had an active case of the virus as of Wednesday.

Communities in the red zone have weekly positive-test rates higher than 10% and more than one new case per 1,000 residents.

The lecture, at noon Thursday, will be available to the public through a video online.

Sixty-eight students and staff combined had to quarantine, according to the district report, but only three of those cases were a result of being a close contact to someone with COVID-19 in a school setting, according to the superintendent.

The auction runs through Saturday night.