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Yeager Hosting Simulated Flight Experience For People With Disabilities

On Saturday people with disabilities can practice the airport and flight experience at Yeager Airport. Airport Director and CEO of Yeager Airport Dominique Ranieri said this is the second “Wings for All” event in a Friday statement.  ...

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Inaugurations, Inclusive Communities And Prison Books This West Virginia Week

On this West Virginia Week, the governor and the state's newest senator took their oaths of office.  We’ll also hear about an inclusive community, as well as changing access to books in Tennessee’s prisons, and we explore the past and future of a historic building in Shepherdstown. 

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The Sweet Story Of Finnamon Buns, Inside Appalachia

This week on Inside Appalachia, a West Virginia baker draws on her Finnish heritage to make a different kind of cinnamon roll. Also, for nearly a century, some of Appalachia’s best wood carvers have trained at a North Carolina folk school. Newcomers are still welcomed in to come learn the craft. And, we have a conversation with Kentucky poet Willie Carver Jr.

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Del. Steele Loses Judiciary Chair Assignment Weeks After Police Are Called To His Home

State House leadership removed Delegate Brandon Steel, a Republican from Raleigh County, from a powerful committee position Friday.

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