Written By Lisa Breslin Bring the peanuts. Forget the Crackerjacks. There will be plenty of those, but they will be of the political kind. Local Republicans and Democrats will put aside political barbs in October, at least for a...

Written By Sherwood Kohn Tom Crowl, an intense, voluble gentleman of 5 feet, 6 inches, 45 years, thinning brown hair, a graying mustache and bright blue eyes, sat on one of the old red theater seats in the lobby of the Carroll...

Written By Lisa Breslin Christmas came to Westminster resident Kathy Brown’s house on a hot day in July. Eight elves decorated small Christmas trees in themes that honored cultures around the world, tucking gifts beneath each...

Written By Lisa Breslin Once a day, Westminster resident Lisa Ruppel works on a scarf. In fact, once a day for more than a year, she has crocheted and knitted soft scarves with calming colors and donated them to organizations...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant A Maryland crab crawls on Rudi Tosti. The crab’s shiny blue-gray shell glistens with tiny water bubbles. The delicate feathery scales lining the crab’s legs lay gently on Tosti’s left shoulder....

Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes Last year the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life events in Carroll County raised $443,000 to help battle cancer. In the same year, the Carroll County Arts Council’s Festival of Wreaths...

Written By Donna Engle When Shawn Lockhart picks up a gouge in her Union Bridge studio and begins to carve art out of a block, the result is likely to be a print filled with symbolism and suffused with the artist’s imagination....

Written By Patricia Rouzer Perhaps Carroll County’s glass ceiling hasn’t exactly shattered over the last several years, but it has clearly developed significant cracks. Once a male dominated domain, the county’s small business...

Written By Lisa Breslin More than 100 Union and Confederate soldiers and their dance partners gathered in the Longwell Armory Building in Westminster on June 28 for the Corbit’s Charge Ball. The ball was the culmination of a...

For more than 20 years, a small group of Westminster High School graduates has marked the calendar each month with “GNO.” As young girls, the 10 friends giggled about boys in high school, and, together, celebrated such rites of...

“My boyfriend’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble. Hey la, hey la, my boyfriend’s back.” The song has transcended generations, beginning decades ago with the scratch of needle on vinyl and continuing through to the clear...

Written By Lisa Breslin Things that lure us out of the house to look up at the sky: double rainbows, flocks of low-flying geese against the glow of a sunset, a solar eclipse, presidential or military helicopters and,...