Hoptown

In honor of Women's History Month, Hoptown Chronicle is highlighting some of Hopkinsville's most notable women throughout history.

Daylight saving time begins the second Sunday in March and ends the first Sunday in November.

Leigh Ann Stewart will lead the school slated to house preschool classes and the Inspire Early Learning Academy.

The deadline to nominate a woman or a group for the award is March 11.

The crossing will be closed to vehicle traffic while the gate system is upgraded.

More than 100 community members and officials gathered Friday at the Pennyroyal Area Museum to pay tribute to Hopkinsville's pioneering Black author and feminist, bell hooks.

The 1927 graduate of Howard University's medical school treated patients in his hometown for 50 years and ran Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.

At a time when there were only a few Hopkinsville homes with cars, the forward-thinking Monroe Dalton built a house with a garage.

The meeting will be March 2 at the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library.

In the second part of a three-part Black History Month series about Dr. Phillip Brooks, Grace Abernethy explores the history of the property where Brooks built Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.

The public is invited to the Round Table Reading Series Lecture.

Some parking spaces will be unavailable to use after the work begins March 4.