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Local news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Can Attucks school be saved?

Despite a push starting in the early 1990s to renovate Attucks school, the building continues to decline. Can it be saved?
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Pocket park planned on Sixth Street

The old, vacant pawn shop building on East Sixth Street will be demolished and replaced with a pocket park. It'll be the city's second pocket park downtown.
Landscape architect Lynn Reeves provided this preliminary plan for the pocket park to the Local Development Corp., which owns the Sixth Street property where the park would be constructed. (Local Development Corp. image)

Sudden Service building dedicated

Sudden Service, Hopkinsville's first gas station, was dedicated Friday following a renovation project fueled in large part by volunteers.
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Sixth Street parking lot construction begins

A free public parking lot being constructed on the site of the old Peter Postell building at Sixth and Virginia streets could be completed by mid-summer.
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Chamber lauds Hopkinsville businesses

The Christian County Chamber of Commerce presented its 2019 Compass Awards to local small businesses during a banquet at the Silo Event Center.
Taylor Hayes receiving Sunset Award

‘To me, she’s Gloria Jean’

Gwenda Motley, a retired educator, spoke about her sister, feminist author bell hooks, during History on Tap at Hopkinsville Brewing Co.
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