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Growing up in his family’s slaughterhouse business along the Juniata River in Tyrone, Randy Sprankle had a pretty good idea that cutting meat wasn’t what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. “When I was 16, I applied for a stocking job at the IGA down the
Imagine how set-back and peaceful live must have been in the many communities served by the standard gauge Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad (H&BT) during the coal-hauling line’s existence.
Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community moved from skepticism to coping with unbearable loss and processing the trauma.
Mifflin has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates among U.S. counties with at least 40,000 people, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University — 591 deaths per 100,000 residents.
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates with 591 per 100,000 residents as of mid-March, compared with 298 deaths nationally.