Hoptown

The fair has carnival rides and games, truck and tractor pulls, beauty pageants, livestock competitions, home and garden exhibits, a demolition derby and a ton of food.

The seven days of the year when fireworks may be discharged are July 1 to 5, and on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Casey Jones will begin distilling and storing barrels for B.H. James, a Logan County company, this summer.

Auditions for cast members who are at least 16 years old will be July 22.

Fleming, who earned his law degree in 1997, was first elected to the Christian Circuit Court bench in 2006.

The $14,672 grant will be used for vinyl siding and new windows at the Jeffers Bend Welcome Center.

Mayor James R. Knight Jr. said the city will be posting signs to address what he called "an abundance of squatters."

Braden Porter, who attends the University of Kentucky, is one of eight college interns working this summer at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.

Tickets are being sold now for the series that includes six shows, starting with a Beatles tribute band and concluding with Steep Canyon Rangers

Sen. Whitney Westerfield and Reps. Myron Dossett, Jason Petrie and Walker Thomas will participate, the mayor's office announced.

Tombstone Tuesday — a local effort to clean headstones at Hopkinsville's UBS Cemetery — is happening on June 20.

The Torah survives today because it was loaned to the local museum two years before the Jewish synagogue building collapsed in 1977.