Westminster native Doug Walters is one of the few people who have hiked the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail.  His motive: a love of nature.

And that is only what its friends have to say about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.” The underlying problem is that the law, the Title I of which runs to 374 pages (there are 10 titles), was designed...

In addition to birthdays, many adoptive parents observe the date on which they welcomed adopted children into their families.

Birdie's Cafe owner Sherri Hosfeld Joseph proudly displays one of her caffeinated beverages. The coffee shop has become seemingly ubiquitous in our highly driven, and hence highly caffeinated, society, culminating with the joking observation that yo...

The ProStart culinary program at Silver Oak Academy in Keymar trains delinquent youths to be professional chefs.

Sykesville novelist Katherine McCord has written My CIA: A Memoir, in an attempt to understand her secretive father.

Gardening season is upon us. Time to break out the tools, get your hands dirty and bring color back to the yard.“If you have an existing garden, you don't have to do a lot,” said Steve Allgeier, master gardener coordinator for the University of ...

Experts advise finding out where you are wasting heat and electricity.

Normal sight can come like an epiphany to a child fitted with glasses.

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai E. Stevenson.On his mayor’s desk in Taneytown, not far from Jim McCarron’s fingertips, are the inspirational words of Adlai S...