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Local news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

In addition to special sales and open houses at local businesses, Small Business Saturday will offer live music and drawings for prizes at Founders Square between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday.
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Several Walmart stores closest to Hopkinsville Milling Co. quit stocking the corn meal mix that many home cooks use to make their Thanksgiving dressing. The two Hopkinsville stores recently brought Sunflour products back but other Walmart stores in Western Kentucky have not.
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Downtown business owners are being sought to apply for the Destination Business Bootcamp this spring in Longmont, Colorado. Participants will have follow-up sessions in Hopkinsville.
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Owners Graham and Heather Dawson have rescheduled the restaurant's opening on Sixth Street for the week before Christmas.
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Rapid Response Events are planned at Hopkinsville Community College to provide information on resources for finding a new job.
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The closure affects 110 hourly and 61 salaried employees at the Hopkinsville plant, which opened in 1967.
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Taylor is among a small number of transition team members who are not from the Louisville-Lexington-Frankfort triangle.
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Gov. Matt Bevin requested the recanvass after the election night result showed him losing to Steve Beshear by less than 1 percentage point statewide.
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The third annual FriendsGiving features Alonzo Pennington, a popular Kentucky musician who plays a mix of blue, country and Americana music.
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The Veterans Day storm left a sheet of ice on many secondary streets and county roads.
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District officials made the call early and announced schools will be closed Tuesday.
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Up to 2 inches of snow is expected overnight with winds gusting up to 30 mph.
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