Dear Doctors: We’re in central Oregon, and even though the wildfires aren’t right next to our town, we’ve had bad air quality all summer. My husband and I and our kids are feeling irritation in our lungs and sinuses, like when you’re catching a cold. Can this happen even when you’re not clos…

DEAR AMY: My father served in the Navy in WWII. He passed away in 1985, my mother in 1999. When she knew her time was nearing, she handed me a box of airmail letters, written by both during that time.

CUMBERLAND — Baltimore City Hall, the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower and Government House, together with hundreds of other buildings around the world, will light up teal on Nov. 5 to raise Alzheimer’s awareness as part of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America’s Light the World in Teal program.

COVID-19 testing offered to Garrett County youth at three different locations

Dear Doctors: My husband caught a cold this summer, and he swears the readings from his fitness tracker a few days before warned him that he was about to be sick. Do you think that’s really possible?

Operation Christmas Child to begin collections

CUMBERLAND — In anticipation of daylight saving time ending Nov. 1, State Fire Marshal Brian Geraci is urging Marylanders to “Change Your Clock — Change Your Battery” in both smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in their homes.

DEAR DR. FOX: Halloween will soon be here, and every year around this time, I read about black cats being caught and tortured. I know it is irrational, and goes back to the fear of the bubonic plague across Europe in the Middle Ages, but some people still believe this nonsense. Please set th…

CUMBERLAND — The Maryland Department of Human Services is urging residents who may need help paying their utility bills to seek assistance before a shutoff is allowed to occur.

Former Cumberland resident Linda (Sloan) Madden writes a memoir telling how she remembers her early years growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s when the city was the second largest in Maryland. Madden, of Hagerstown, is a 1965 graduate of Ursuline Academy. “Tell Us a Story” is available at the Bo…

DEAR AMY: Three years ago, I was diagnosed with bone cancer.

CUMBERLAND — The C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts, 104 Washington St., is planning for its annual Art For Giving exhibition.