Allegany County

Allegany County, on Maryland’s Western edge, was spared the worst of it the COVID-19 pandemic through the spring and summer, but that rapidly changed in late fall, when infection rates exploded. News4’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

As the coronavirus took hold in major American cities last spring, Kit Pepper did the only thing she could think of to help: she started sewing. Hearing reports of mask shortages, the Frostburg, Md., woman —with members of the local house and garden club — made and shipped thousands of masks to front-line workers across the country. But as she…