Month: May 2025

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Local News

Developers share Rotary Park layout, construction update

Rotary Park on Pardue Lane is set to bring accessible and universal play to Hopkinsville. Parks and Recreation Superintendent Toby Hudson and Josh Wagner from Miracle Playgrounds of Ky. & Tn. spotlighted the playground’s design and construction timeline on Tuesday. The pair provided the update at Tuesday’s Hopkinsville Rotary Club meeting. Miracle Playgrounds of Ky. & Tn. is a family-run company based out of Leitchfield that designs and installs playgrounds. […]

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Local News

Rain chances linger through the week as temperatures start creeping up

There will be rain chances each day for the week but don’t worry, it won’t be a washout weather wise. That’s according to Meteorologist Derrick Snyder with the national weather service in Paducah, who says although rain chances will linger, the rainfall is expected to be light overall and slowly, temperatures are going to start to warm up, feeling more like summer—with no risk of severe weather in the forecast. […]

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Local News

Fiscal Court approves budget on second-reading, updates to animal shelter agreements

Christian Fiscal Court approved the budget for the upcoming fiscal year upon second-reading at Tuesday morning’s meeting, and heard updates regarding FEMA and the Christian County Animal Shelter. The $52 million spending plan is for fiscal year 2025-2026 and was returned to Fiscal Court for final approval after getting the okay from the Kentucky Department for Local Government. It includes a four percent cost of living raise for employees across […]

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Local News

Portion of Stateline Road to close for railroad crossing upgrades

A portion of Stateline Road in Oak Grove will is set be blocked for two weeks while the U.S. Department of Defense make upgrades to a railroad crossing. The road will be blocked at Walton Road from June 2 through June 16 to allow contractors to replace the railroad crossing and install new signaling equipment. The roadway on both sides of the closure will remain open.

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Local News

Beshear signs order temporarily suspending fees for license duplication

Governor Andy Beshear recently signed an executive order removing the fees and some requirements for Kentuckians who need duplicate I.D. cards, driver’s licenses, car registrations and titles following recent severe weather. The order applies to residents in Christian, Todd, Trigg, Caldwell, Union, Laurel, Pulaski, Russell and any other counties that were included in a presidential major disaster area declaration after April’s flooding or recent tornadoes. The order temporarily suspends parts […]

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Local News

CCPS among school districts to lose federal funding

Christian County Public Schools is joining the list of school systems across the state and nation who are losing federal funding after the U.S. Department of Education denied a request for reconsideration.  According to a letter to the Kentucky Department of Education from the United States Secretary of Education that was received in March, declaring that the time to spend all federal funds related to COVID relief was amended from […]

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Local Sports

HCA’s Whitecotton falls in state tennis tourney

Heritage Christian Academy’s Stephen Whitecotton ran into a buzz-saw in his first round match Tuesday morning at the Kentucky High School State Tennis Tournament. The Warriors’ eighth-grader faced No. 10 seed Nathanial Hill, of Corbin, in the first round. Hill advanced to the round of 32 with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Whitecotton. Due to weather, the match was moved to the Lexington Tennis Club. Whitecotton, whose high school season […]

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Local Sports

Murray State, WKU to play in Oxford Regional

Former Hopkinsville High School baseball pitcher Preston Chaudoin and the Murray State Racers will be the No. 4 seed in the Oxford Regional and will play top seed Ole Miss Friday in the first round of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Murray (39-13) will play the Rebels at 7 p.m. on Friday. It is only the fourth time in school history that the Racers have made the NCAA Baseball Tournament and […]

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Local Sports

Thompson, Wright State to face Vandy in NCAA Tournament

Former Hopkinsville High School and Heritage Christian Academy pitcher J.J. Thompson and the Wright State Raiders will be playing this weekend in the Nashville Region of the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The Raiders will open play against the No. 1 overall seed Vanderbilt Commodores at 5 p.m. on Friday. Louisville and East Tennessee State also are in the regional. Thompson pitched 3 2/3 innings of one-hit relief in the Raiders' Horizon […]

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