Month: March 2025

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Local News

Public library hosts spring break activities for local students

Local public schools are out for spring break and the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library is hosting a week full of fun activities for kids in the community. The events got underway Monday with the No Sleep Slumber Party and will continue on Tuesday with LEGOs and Friends. Kids can come out and build LEGOs, make pock sockets and play some Beanboozled Trivia. On Wednesday, Pokémon lovers are invited to a […]

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Local News

Economic Development Council spotlights their goals for 2030

Members of the South Western Kentucky Economic Development Council focused on their plans and goals for the next five years at their Monday meeting. Before spotlighting the economic development goals for 2030, Council Executive Director Carter Hendricks talked about the progress made toward the five-year goals set in 2020. Hendricks says the council had the goals of establishing 5,000 new jobs and over $1 billion in new capital investments by […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 7

Local News

Area could see multiple days of severe weather this week

Folks across the region battened down the hatches over the weekend for severe weather—and you might as well go ahead and leave them battened, because a slew of severe weather is in store for this week.  Monday and Tuesday will be calm, but then Wednesday brings our next significant chance for severe weather, and it could be a doozy.  At least that’s according to Meteorologist Justin Gibbs with the National […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 4

Local News

KCTCS, Murray State continue agreement to support transfer students

Leaders of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and Murray State University recently discussed continuing their partnership to support transfer students. KCTCS President Ryan Quarles and Murray State President Bob Jackson reaffirmed their agreement allowing students from the community college system to easily transfer to the university. According to a news release, transfer students pursuing their bachelor’s degree at Murray State are eligible for up to $4,000 worth of […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 5

Local News

New dispatchers join local law enforcement

The state of Kentucky has 30 new dispatchers, and some of them are local, after they graduated from the Department of Criminal Justice Training’s Public Safety Dispatch Academy. According to a news release, the graduates successfully completed a highly structured and comprehensive curriculum to satisfy mandated training requirements. They received roughly 164 hours of academy instruction over a period of four-weeks, and training areas included correct phone and radio procedures, […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 6

Local News

Virginia Street Baptist Church celebrates M.O. Fort’s 30th pastoral anniversary

In 1995, Reverend M.O. Fort became the pastor of Virginia Street Baptist Church and he’s been preaching there ever since. Members of the church and community celebrated him and his wife, Lady Renee Fort, for their service at Friday’s 30th anniversary banquet. Beyond serving Virginia Street Church, M.O. Fort is the president of the Hopkinsville College of the Bible and Renee Fort works as a registered nurse at Fort Campbell […]

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Local News

KSP searching for new information on man that went missing in 1997

Kentucky State Police have not given up on locating a man who was reported missing in Hopkins County in 1997, and they’re looking to see if the public has any information.  Twenty-nine-year-old Charles Massey went missing 28 years ago in Madisonville, when he was last seen delivering Easter baskets to individuals in the Madisonville area. Massey is described as a white male, standing approximately 6’ tall, weighing around 175 pounds, […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 7

Local Sports

Johnson, McCarley lead Cols at Invitational of the South meet

Several members of the Christian County High School track team competed over the weekend at the Invitational of the South at Marshall County High School. Kristen Johnson ran third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.52 seconds. He was also fifth in the 400-meter dash in a time of 52.58 seconds. CJ McCarley took third in the Discus with a toss of 146-feet, 9-inches. He also was fifth […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 4

Local Sports

Kay leads strong performance from HHS at Invitational of the South meet

The Hopkinsville Tigers and Christian County Colonels track teams competed in the prestigious Invitational of the South meet Friday and Saturday at Marshall County High School. Treston Kay led the Tigers by winning the Triple Jump with a leap of 42-feet, 1-inch. The senior also was fifth in the Long Jump with a leap of 19-feet, 7 inches. Keyshun Teal picked up a pair of silver medals in the 110-meter […]

todayMarch 31, 2025 6

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