Hoptown

Christian County Public Schools announced the district would not comply with the county health director's request to temporarily halt athletics and extracurricular activities.

Kayla Bebout called on residents to discontinue social gatherings, sporting events and extracurricular activities. A spokesman for the school system said the district would not follow that advice.

County Health Director Kayla Bebout advised the school district to follow the guidance for remote instruction when the county's incidence rate went into the critical red level as defined by the state Department of Education and the Department of Public Health.

Flu shots are also available at the health department without an appointment.

Members of AKA and League of Women Voters are leading the effort.

The auction, in its 70th year, was postponed from April because of the coronavirus, and at one point there was talk of putting it off entirely this year.

The report pushed the local total since the pandemic began to 1,185.

Similar memorial gatherings are planned across the country at the same time.

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