Last year’s Antiques Appraisal Day turned up an 1898 “big wheel” bicycle that had been in Chris Heyn’s Westminster family for several generations. The vehicle, a safer successor to the Victorian “breakbone” cycle, was appraised...

Billed as Carroll County’s largest community charity event, Fallfest attracted more than 40,000 people to downtown Westminster last year for a Main Street parade, midway fun, rides, food, unique shopping and entertainment....

Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes New Market, Maryland, is a little gem tucked away in the green stretches of rural Frederick County. Just a 40-minute drive from Westminster, the town has been evolving for more than 250 years...

Photos by: Phil Grout In a manner of speaking, Carroll County was born in a barn. The fact is, there are barns in Carroll County you will not find anywhere else in the world. There still are a couple of barns urging passing...

Written By Anne Blue When Kelly Chiavacci, Tom Welliver and Kevin Stewart watch their children playing in and around their houses in Westminster, they cannot fail to call up fond recollections of their own childhoods. The recall...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant Locavore. The term sounds like a reference to a prehistoric creature, long extinct. In fact, locavore is a modern word (a combination of the Latin words for “local” and “eater”) for a practice that...

Written By Donna Engle Each spring, the basement of Fred K. and Janice Teeter’s Uniontown home becomes a nursery for about 100 chirping fluff balls. It is all because of the pheasant who came into their lives six years ago. He...

Written By Patricia Rouzer Like a summer day chilled by a sudden storm, Carroll County’s once blistering-hot housing market has cooled precipitously in past months. But local real estate professionals, builders, bankers and...

The family of one of Westminster’s most distinguished citizens has donated $50,000 for community improvement. In ceremonies at the sixth annual Fallfest Gala on April 12 at Martin’s Westminster that kicked off the Fallfest...

Written By Lisa Breslin The Granite House Second Annual Rock Ball, held on April 26 at The Portico of St. John in Westminster, featured cocktails, dinner, dancing, a silent auction and surprise performances by rock legends Chaka...

Written By David Greisman The Big Apple for a day can keep the doldrums away. The distance from downtown Westminster to the heart of New York City is some 215 miles, a four-hour journey by car beyond the beltway, up Interstate...

Written By Linda Morton In a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, the second president, John Adams, wrote, “I believe that it [Independence Day] will be celebrated by succeeding Generations as the great anniversary...