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Barbara Pash

Former associate editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times. She is currently a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the Maryland Daily Record and Chesapeake Life magazine, among others. She is also a devoted gardener who spends the winter reading landscape design books and see catalogues.

Content Posted by Barbara Pash

How to Cut Down Your Energy Bill

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

Get It Together

Are you enslaved by objects, papers and clothing that you can’t bear to throw away? The organization experts have a few hints that may liberate you.

From Cat House To Dream Home

From Cat House to Dream Home When the owner of the smelly house on Willis Street in Westminster died, the buyer found 50 cats living there. Undaunted, he resurrected the residence.

Navigating an Uncertain Tax Season

Tax season almost upon us. Here's a preview of some of the shoals you'll be navigating.

Jos. A Bank: From Pants to Plenty; A Sartorial Success Story

Headquartered in Hampstead, the 106-year-old clothier has expanded from a Baltimore trousers-maker to a multi-million-dollar, 530-store menswear retailer.

Grilled Cheese & Co.: Dreamy Sammiches

Dreamy Sammiches From Grilled Cheese & Co.: Vic Corbi's dream of starting a restaurant devoted to variations on the grilled cheese sandwich has come true.

The Treat Shop: Home of the 20-lb. Chocolate Easter Bunny

Trevis Alban, owner of the Treat Shop, molds white chocolate.It was mid-February. Valentine’s Day was over and Trevis Alban, the owner of the Treat Shop in Westminster, was taking a couple of days’ break before he launched into his next big seas...

Hogan's Niche

A Finksburg craftsman specializes in a unique product: Wine Cellars.

Stoehr Companies: "Building From the Ground Up"

Gregg Stoehr heads the construction company that built a new Dick’s Sporting Goods store in the Town Mall of Westminster.Stoehr Companies has done it all. As a general contracting, construction and construction management firm, they have built or ...

Shannon-Baum: Pointing the Ways for 60 Years

Jean Baum and daughter Denise Baum own and operate the Eldersburg sign company. Artists create a design on a computer. They program a digital printer. On the machine, a metal tray shuttles back and forth, squirting colors onto a long roll of paper. ...