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![Corbin Joseph and Molly Foss pick out toys at a donation center ran by Jackie and Donna Roark in Litt Carr. The Roarks started this pick up center on their own because they saw a need in their community.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/22WMMTstillrecoveringflood-02-e1673385911949-900x422.jpg)
Eastern Kentuckians wrangle with cold and flood aftermath as winter sets in
By: Katie Myers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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LITT CARR, Ky. (OVR) — On the outside, it looked like an ordinary shed. But inside, the building bustled. Moving between two long tables, neighbors caught up while they looked through… Read More
![A mountaintop removal mine site in southern West Virginia.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Mountaintop-removal-w-dragline-900x422.jpg)
The Biden administration has yet to finish a key review of mountaintop removal’s health impacts
By: Alexa Beyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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ORGAS, West Virginia (OVR) — LeRoy and Penny Ferrell are unloading groceries under a carport next to their Boone County home. The couple grew up in the area and have… Read More
![Ohio Board of Education President Charlotte McGuire cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony for Cincinnati Classical Academy, one of the latest charter schools in Ohio. She described the opening as a “momentous time.”](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Feature2-scaled-e1665604457250-900x422.jpg)
As charter schools continue to open in the Ohio Valley, a controversial curriculum begins to gain popularity
By: Kaitlin Thorne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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CINCINNATI (WOUB) – A small private school in Michigan with ties to former President Donald Trump is shaping how thousands of students are educated in publicly funded charter schools across… Read More
![A red and white ferryboat makes its way in the middle of the Ohio River.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Cave_In_Rock_Ferry_Wide-e1663607478936-900x422.jpg)
Once numerous, the few remaining ferry boats on the Ohio River carry on
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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CRITTENDEN COUNTY, Ky. (OVR) — 62-year-old Rick Turner has seen plenty of sunrises steering his ferry boat, the Loni Jo, between the banks of the Ohio River. But he’s grown… Read More
![Miners walk into the mobile health clinic as it makes a stop in Morgantown, WV.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Coal-Miner-Black-Lung-Screening-081018-NIOSH-TWITTER-e1533928838916-900x422.jpg)
A tax to provide benefits to black lung victims is permanent, but might not fix all the fund’s problems
By: Justin Hicks | Ohio Valley ReSource
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HAZARD, Ky. (OVR) — It’s early in the morning outside a Hampton Inn in Hazard, Ky. A bright blue-and-white RV covered in larger-than-life portraits of coal miners sits smack in the… Read More
![A Perry County school bus lies destroyed after being caught up in the floodwaters of Lost Creek in Ned, Ky., on Friday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ap22210631164139-f7e6d23bdf0715592048ee59e1ea21e1b51401c8-scaled-e1659200466978-900x422.jpg)
Legal advocates applaud FEMA changes in Kentucky, but they say transparency is needed
By: Justin Hicks | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WHITESBURG, Ky. (OVR) — After heavy flooding in eastern Kentucky, locals and officials are frustrated with the federal government’s system for disaster aid. People say the process is confusing, sending… Read More
![Havanna Thacker’s mother and an older couple who live near the former high school make hot food to deliver to people up in remote mountain communities still without power and water.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/KY-flooding-feature-e1659897371191-900x422.jpg)
In remote eastern Kentucky, neighbors help where no one else will
By: Justin Hicks | Ohio Valley ReSource
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CARR CREEK, Ky. (OVR) — Over the past week, Havanna Thacker has transformed a historic high school in Carr Creek, Kentucky into a supply depot. While her mother whips up… Read More
![The gym in the old Carr Creek High School, now an impromptu mutual aid center.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Knott-Gym-2048x1367-1-e1659639344140-900x422.jpg)
In the epicenter of Kentucky’s flooding, communities help each other and wait for assistance
By: Katie Myers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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KNOTT COUNTY, Ky. (OVR) — Runnels Branch is a long, winding holler that travels deep into a mountain from the Carr Fork Lake area in Knott County, Kentucky. Usually, the creek… Read More
![Flooding debris in downtown Whitesburg.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/messages_0-13-1536x1152-1-e1659543471240-900x422.jpeg)
Whitesburg, Kentucky begins to clean up and recover after record flooding
By: Katie Myers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WHITESBURG, Ky. (OVR) — In the Parlor Room, a longtime tattoo shop and music venue in downtown Whitesburg, the art-covered walls meet a bare floor, covered in mud. John Falter… Read More
![Troublesome Creek floods the streets of Hindman, Kentucky.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FYxukAdWIAATicp-e1659123185994-900x422.jpg)
Eastern Kentuckians sift through the debris after a historic flood
By: Katie Myers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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WHITESBURG, Ky. (OVR) — Andy Morell and his family watch layers of mud roll down into the storm gutter as a man power washes the residue left behind on their street… Read More
![Blackey’s now-defunct water plant behind fence. The fence has a no trespassing sign on it.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/294723034_1036325793918307_2773880670119116519_n-scaled-e1658759602501-900x422.jpg)
As a storied Kentucky town ‘dissolves’, others may follow
By: Katie Myers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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BLACKEY, Ky. (OVR) — The mayor of Blackey stepped down years ago. The city council dwindled down to nothing. No one stepped up to replace them. Though the former coal camp town… Read More
![Morgan Brodt kisses her son Axel inside of the Hope House at the Ohio Women's Reformatory in Marysville, Ohio](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ABCs-Scheller-9-scaled-1-e1657943694712-900x422.jpg)
Prison nurseries allow for ‘intimate moments’ important to childhood development
By: Kaitlin Thorne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio (OVR) — Every morning Gianna wakes up in a wooden crib next to her mother’s bed. Sunlight streams through the window, warming the room and displaying the razor-wire… Read More
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Rural pride gatherings provide safe spaces for the LGBTQ community
By: Kaitlin Thorne | Ohio Valley ReSource, Katie Meyers | Ohio Valley ReSource, Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · Rural Pride gatherings provide safe spaces for LGBTQ community PIKEVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — It wasn’t long ago that Tonya Jones felt she couldn’t be out and… Read More
![Jerry Coleman stands in a parking lot. His shirt has the words "Black Lung Kills" on it.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Jerry-Coleman-mined-coal-for-thirty-seven-years.-Now-he-has-black-lung-e1654610723406-900x422.jpeg)
Black lung patients and advocates urge mine safety officials to update silica dust standards
By: Katie Myers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · Black lung patients, advocates urge mine safety officials to update silica dust standards CABIN CREEK, W.Va. (OVR) — Jerry Coleman mined West Virginia coal underground for… Read More
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Prison nurseries help incarcerated mothers bond, but options are limited
By: Kaitlin Thorne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · Prison nurseries help incarcerated mothers bond, but options are limited MARYSVILLE, Ohio (OVR) – Kea’Londa Fuqua was 20 years old when she found out she… Read More
![Ruhullah Rezai and his son Farhan shop for clothes after moving to Lexington from Afghanistan.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ruhullah-and-Farhan-scaled-e1651508705800-900x422.jpg)
Refugees, evacuees find homes and support in the Ohio Valley
By: Corinne Boyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · Refugees, evacuees find homes and support in the Ohio Valley LEXINGTON, Ky. (OVR) — On a warm April afternoon, Ruhullah Rezai, his wife Mahriya and son… Read More
![The Ohio House](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/kyle_koehler_on_house_session_chamber_floor_hb123_payday_lending_072418_-_chow-e1632172673269-900x422.jpg)
Ohio joins states with no concealed carry license requirement
By: Kaitlin Thorne | Ohio Valley ReSource
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ATHENS, Ohio (OVR) — Every year at tax time Mike Linscott knows that business is soon to pick up at River’s Edge Outfitters, his family-run firearm and archery supply store… Read More
![Some of the pizza on display in the cafeteria.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Pizza-e1647363278247-900x422.jpg)
With child nutrition waivers expiring, school leaders fear kids will go hungry
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · With child nutrition waivers expiring, school leaders fear kids will go hungry MAYFIELD, Ky. (OVR) — Pizza is on the menu at Mayfield High School, a… Read More
![Part of the Carpathians Mountains in Ukraine](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2014_05_17_Carpathians-e1646671667295-900x422.jpg)
‘Kindred lands’: Scholar talks similarities between Appalachia and Ukraine
By: Ryland Barton | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · ‘Kindred lands’: Scholar talks similarities between Appalachia and Ukraine LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) — Though they’re about 5,000 miles apart, Appalachia has a lot in common with Ukraine,… Read More
![Carter G. Woodson delivers a talk on television](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Carter-G-Woodson-reel-2-e1646338572763-900x422.png)
The Appalachian legacy of Carter G. Woodson, ‘father of Black History Month’
By: Curtis Tate | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · Carter G. Woodson’s Appalachian legacy HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (OVR) — Carter G. Woodson was one of the first people to seriously study and document the history… Read More
![A clinic escort looks at their phone. The picture is a reflection of the photographers side mirror on their vehicle.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/feat-e1645471409770-900x422.jpg)
As the Supreme Court deliberates abortion rights, access is already limited in the Ohio Valley
By: Kaitlin Thorne | Ohio Valley ReSource, Katie Meyers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · Reproductive Health in the Ohio Valley 02/18/22 KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (OVR) – On a cold Wednesday morning in February, cars arrive at an abortion provider in Knoxville,… Read More
![A damaged public housing unit in Mayfield overlooks other damage in the city limits.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Feature-Mayfield-Public-Housing-Unit-e1645136130819-900x422.jpg)
Displaced Kentuckians are still searching for housing after tornadoes
By: Liam Niemeyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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MAYFIELD, Ky. (OVR) — Jimmy Galbreath works hard. The scrap dealer and father of nine from Mayfield, Ky. started working when he was 12 years old. He grew up in… Read More
![Striking workers at Cabell Huntington Hospital pose for a picture in front of a union bus](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Striking-workers-at-Cabell-Huntington-Hospital-pose-for-a-picture-in-November.-scaled-e1643142011234-900x422.jpg)
Labor organizing in the Ohio Valley goes beyond coal
By: Katie Meyers | Ohio Valley ReSource
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ELKVIEW, W.Va. (OVR) — In late December, West Virginia union members and supporters gathered in the small town of Elkview, about 20 minutes outside of Charleston. Dozens of linemen, coal… Read More
![The U.S. Capitol at sunset](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP21126795041498-e1628619806557-900x422.jpg)
The infrastructure law brings mine reclamation, clean water and broadband to Appalachia
By: Curtis Tate | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The bipartisan infrastructure bill that became law last month has billions of dollars in it for roads, bridges, airports and transit systems in the Ohio Valley. The law also addresses… Read More
![A pedestrian bridge outside of the Shriners Hospital for Children Medical Center in Lexington.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Hospital-Capacity-Feature-e1638218549870-900x422.jpg)
Ohio Valley childhood obesity rates have increased, putting kids at greater risk of severe COVID-19 illness
By: Corinne Boyer | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Ohio Valley ReSource · Childhood obesity & covid FRANKFORT, Ky. (OVR) — In October, University of Kentucky Children’s hospital reported a substantial rise in children hospitalized for COVID-19. The escalation… Read More
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