Huntingdon Heritage Festival

Huntingdon Heritage Festival

After COVID-19 put the longstanding Carroll County tradition on hold last year, the Town of Huntingdon is ready to celebrate its 28th Heritage Festival on Saturday, Sept. 25, with free, family-friendly activities planned from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Huntingdon’s historic Court Square. “Festival goers can expect to enjoy inflatables, ISTEA train rides, face painting;…

COVID-19 illnesses challenging local hospital

COVID-19 illnesses challenging local hospital

A local surge in COVID-19 cases – mostly from the Delta Variant – is presenting a challenge to local medical providers, including the county’s only hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County. According to hospital CEO Susan Breeden, five of her hospital’s six Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are currently filled. She also said that the hospital…

The Right Thing

The Right Thing

Well, he went and did it. In spite of promising otherwise last year, last week our good president issued what amounts to a nationwide vaccine mandate. It was done as an executive order leveraging recently added OSHA regulations to make all private employers with over 100 employees require their workers to either get vaccinated or…

CERTAINTY

CERTAINTY

   God’s directing Timothy to describe God as “the pillar and foundation of truth” (1 Timothy 3:15) assures us that God alone enables us to live in constant expectancy, works miracles in our lives, continuously enriches our lives, gives us a new mind that enables us to be free of our preoccupation with ourselves and…