COVID — it’s a scary word, isn’t it? There’s a specific connotation that comes to mind when one hears those dreaded words: “They have COVID.” Images of hospitals, overflowing with patients as doctors struggle with a shortage of essential...

Every Monday morning, Kathee Rhode pulls into the empty parking lot of the Lower Macungie Library. She unlocks the door, turns on the lights, and sweeps through the desolate library — she waters a few plants, and prepares herself to answer some...