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Local news from Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Bates was a former county magistrate and served as president of the Hopkinsville NAACP chapter.
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Community and Development Services is asking property owners to identify the location of shelters.
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The detection system for three schools will cost approximately $810,000, the district said before Monday's meeting.
The U.S. Navy enlisted at least 10 Black men from Christian County during the Civil War. They ranged in age from 14 to 40.
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Hopkinsville is among the Kentucky municipalities that have adopted regulations amid rising interest by solar developers.
The event will be Feb. 23 at the Boys and Girls Club on Walnut Street.
The property is off Fort Campbell Boulevard near the Walmart Distribution Center.
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The deadline is Feb. 15, and the journal will be released in April.
A conversation about belonging is set Saturday at Corner Coffeehouse, and a WKMS virtual book club meeting will be later in the month.
Twenty-five formerly enslaved residents of the county were featured in newspaper profiles published in 1934. Museum director Alissa Keller looks at their biographies through a new lens.
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The county's private schools are returning to classes but on a one-hour delay.
The expansion is expected to create 25 additional jobs for the company.
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