Hoptown

Beshear, the state's attorney general, is trying to prevent Republican Matt Bevin from winning a second term as governor.

The outcome of Tuesday's election will determine whether the school district can use the nickel tax to finance construction of two new high schools.

Voters will decide Nov. 5 whether the school board's nickel tax stands or is rejected.

The contest took place in a former body shop garage undergoing renovations to provide an expansion space for the downtown brewery.

The Human Rights Commission announced a new award has been created to honor Bernard Standard, who will retire early next year as the commission's executive director.

Gwenda Watkins Motley reflects on where she's from in one of two poems submitted for "Homegrown Poems: Your Places, Your Stories in Verse."

Campanile Productions has a cast of 27 local actors for the play at the Alhambra Theatre.

The Mixer, a combination restaurant, bakery and bar on Sixth Street, will be open Wednesday through Saturday.

The Sunday Social was organized for Hopkinsville's Big Read, which is focused on Thorton Wilder's play, "Our Town."

Founder and editor of the Hoptown Chronicle, Jennifer Brown, discusses Dean of Black Journalists Ted Poston on the WKMS program Sounds Good.

The collection features fictionalized accounts of Poston's childhood, growing up in the 1910s in segregated Hopkinsville. The author and his buddies play the heroes, often outwitting the white community, but also their black elders.