Month: August 2021

Trial got underway Monday in Christian Circuit Court for Shakkory Willis, the man accused in the January, 2019 shooting death of Corvyan Thomas on Short Bethel Street. Opening statements from Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling and public defender Eric Bearden are expected this afternoon. Willis is charged with murder, first-degree burglary, first-degree robbery and unlawful transaction with a minor. Willis is accused of shooting Thomas in an attempted robbery where Dylan […]

The Hopkins County Health Department has reported four additional COVID-19 deaths and 158 new cases in the last week. There have now been 156 coronavirus fatalities in Hopkins County since the beginning of the pandemic and 5,096 total cases.  

The Todd County School System has announced the hiring of Lynne-Alexzandra Carrington as the new assistant principal at Todd County Central High School. Carrington has served as a sixth grade and seventh grade reading language arts teacher, an at-risk coordinator, and a student support coordinator throughout her 15 years at Kenwood Middle School in Clarksville.  She completed that district’s Aspiring Administrators Academy and has been an educator since September 2003. […]

Locals have celebrated the end of slavery on August 8 for over a century and there will be a celebration this Sunday at the Pennyroyal Area Museum. It’s a partnership between the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville and Human Rights Commission and HRC Executive Director Idalia Luna says it will be a time of storytelling between 1 and 3 p.m. https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1411/files/2021/08/idalia-aug-8.mp3 She says most of all, it’s continuing the celebration of […]

Three people were injured and two dogs were killed in a house fire Monday morning in Clarksville. Firefighters were called to a home on Singletree Drive about 5:45 a.m. and found flames coming from the roof, according to the Clarksville Fire Department. Some family members escaped by climbing out of a second-story window. Three people suffered burns and one had to be flown by helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, […]