News release: FORT WAYNE, IN – Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc., has launched a new website serving as a gateway to thousands of digitized Lincoln era letters, photographs, newspapers, books and other items from the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection. The Friends’ newly launched website, www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org, will offer[Read More…]
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Innovate: WVPA Convention 2018 is Aug. 9-11
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VP Pence during West Virginia visit: ‘Promises kept’
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Protesters gather outside Pence event in Wheeling
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West Virginia Secretary of State Warner disqualifies Blankenship from ballot
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Bids for first major Roads to Prosperity project come in $100M over estimates
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