In recognition of National Newspaper Week, Hoptown Chronicle Board member Constance Alexander writes about the importance of community journalism and looks back at the origin of this nonprofit news organization.
For the first time ever, research — but not the scientific kind — is at the fingertips of anyone who knows how to use an internet search engine. The research often stops when the searcher finds information that confirms their suspicions and fits their belief system.
Our plan for the general election keeps the best of what worked in the June primary, especially giving voters options to safely cast their votes, and it makes improvements where necessary, including pushing for more in-person voting locations and faster election results.
Every Thursday, the Breaking Bread Community Dinner Church serves 65 to 75 meals at the Aaron McNeil House. Organizers are seeking help to keep the weekly meal going.
After months of covering the COVID-19 pandemic in Hopkinsville, the story hits especially close to home for Hoptown Chronicle editor Jennifer P. Brown.
Reconciliation can only take place when we begin to learn of each other’s experiences. The church must be the voice that says, “It is time for us to sit down at the table and share each other’s experiences. When we sit down at the table together healing will take place.”
Kentucky has already made great strides protecting our Civil War battlegrounds. Thanks to not-for-profit organizations, “friends” groups, public-private partnerships, volunteers, grants, donors, the American Battlefield Trust and state and local governments, the past 25 years have been a golden age for Bluegrass state battlefield preservation.
"Moral force is necessary for moral change to take place," Richard Nelson, executive director of the Commonwealth Policy Center, writes in a viewpoint for Hoptown Chronicle. "The force that animated abolitionists to end slavery in the 19th century and propelled the civil rights movement of the 1960s must be embraced if we’re to see full reconciliation between the races in the 21st century."
Every person who bought a Date Night To-Go package, placed an online order or knocked on the taproom door for carry-out has had a hand in keeping the business afloat, the brewery's founder says.
