September 16th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Over 200 people attended a vigil this past Saturday evening at City Hall Plaza in Cumberland in memory of political activist Charlie Kirk. Kirk was assassinated during a speaking engagement in Utah last week.  Organized by a group of local ministers in response to rising political violence causing separation in the country, Pastor Michael Mudge of Bethany House of the Lord said the pastors all had the same thought concerning the event…

  

“Everybody just had a sense of burden; that we’ve got to come together, we’ve got to pull the community together and we’ve got to turn our thoughts and emotions into some form of action.”