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Charles Martin, Lexington’s current Director of Water Quality, (right) is being appointed as the Acting Commissioner of Environmental Quality and Public Works, replacing Nancy Albright. The Division of Streets and Roads will also be put under the direct supervision of Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Glenn Brown (left), Mayor Linda Gorton announced Wednesday.
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Lexington Commissioner of Environmental Quality and Public Works Nancy Albright will resign at the end of March, according to Mayor Linda Gorton.
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    Accounts of March 9 and March 11, 1976, when the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County exploded, killing 26 miners. On the 50th anniversaries of the explosions, our guests, Bill Bishop and Brian McKnight, recall these back-to-back disasters.
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