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Jenni Glendenning

Jenni Glendenning

Jenni Glendenning, a Ph.D. student at the University of Kentucky, is the David Hawpe Fellow in Appalachian Reporting for UK’s Institute for Rural Journalism. Reach her at [email protected].

Nonprofits team with state, federal governments to tackle housing shortage in Eastern Kentucky

By: - June 24, 2024

A religiously oriented group using volunteers from many states is doing much of the housing recovery work in flood-ravaged Eastern Kentucky. The Appalachia Service Project has completed 24 new homes and fully repaired 40 more for flood survivors in Breathitt, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Magoffin and Perry counties since the flood two years ago.? ASP has […]

Eastern Kentuckian who lost his wife, house in 2022 flood grateful for new home on high ground

By: - June 24, 2024

Farmer Baker was holding on for his life, clutching a pair of post hole diggers, on the night of July 27-28, 2022, as part of Eastern Kentucky’s record flooding swept through his garage on Lower River Caney in Breathitt County. He had already watched the waters sweep away his wife, Vanessa, the only one of […]