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This week in Mohawk Valley history, a native son was named general in chief of Union troops in the Civil War.

HALEYVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Tending a thrift store that displays a faded Trump flag in a nearly all-white Alabama county with a long history of going against the

Former President Trump speech at 2021 CPAC, Photo Date: February 28, 2021 Statistics show that Winston County ranks last in terms of people who have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in Alabama, which has the country’s lowest inoculation rate. Posted: Apr 8, 2021 5:00 PM Posted By: Jay Reeves, Associated Press HALEYVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Tending a thrift store that displays a faded Trump flag in a nearly all-white Alabama county with a long history of going against the grain, Dwight Owensby is among the area's many skeptics of the COVID-19 vaccine. Owensby, 77, said he doesn't often watch...

He isn’t alone in Winston County, which ranks last in terms of people who have been fully vaccinated in a state that has the country’s lowest vaccination rate, according to federal statistics. To many here, the pandemic isn’t much of a concern. Businesses are open and relatively few people wear masks, even though Alabama’s rule requiring them to be worn in public wasn’t scheduled to end until Friday. A Union stronghold where some pushed for secession from pro-slavery Alabama during the Civil War, Winston County is a prime example of a problem that health officials say they’ll have...

In Alabama’s ‘Trumpiest’ county, only 7.3% have received COVID vaccine Updated 11:03 AM; Today 11:03 AM A Civil War monument dedicated to both Union and Confederate soldiers stands outside the Winston County Courthouse in Double Springs, Ala., Monday, April 5, 2021. The county, which attempted to secede from slaveholding Alabama during the war, is trailing the state in COVID-19 vaccinations. Many are hesitant to get shots in the nearly all-white county, and officials say vaccine supply also is a problem. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)AP Facebook Share Tending a thrift store that displays a fad...