Ten final contestants belted out their best songs during the Carroll’s Idol 2008 Grand Finale at Grace Hall in Westminster on April 25, and Cara Wolf, a 19-year-old musical theater major at Carroll Community College, captured...

Written By Lisa Breslin Audience members pounded crab mallets and rang cowbells, shouted pirate chants and “way to go” as nine teams of three spellers wrestled with words like succor, feckless, exegesis, diptych and parlous at...

Written By Patricia Bianca First came Precious. The scrawny feline had sought the cool shade of my porch as a respite from the sun-drenched fields behind my home. Next came Chin, who set up camp on my deck to stalk the field...

Written By Cathy Drinkwater Better I look forward to Mother’s Day each year. That’s when my three grown kids make a fuss over me and put me up on a pedestal to let me know how special they think I am. Unfortunately, the...

Written By Donna Engle For nearly a decade, a hospital emergency room was the only health care Melissa Gilbert had. Without insurance, the 26-year old Mount Airy woman could not afford to pay a private physician. Every few...

Written By Donna Engle When Jackie Smith makes coffee in the morning at her Westminster home, her cat is sometimes under foot. But where you can always find her fuzzy friend is on the wall above her kitchen counter. YesÉ on the...

Written by Joanne Morvay Weant Ronda Nichols was six years old when she first slid a brand new leather mitt onto her hand and took her position on the softball field. Twenty-eight years later, Nichols still loves putting on a...

Written By Lisa Breslin More than 600 people gathered at Martin’s West in Baltimore on March 1 to dine, dance and celebrate the services and accomplishments of Westminster-based Target Community and Educational Services, Inc....

Written By Patricia Rouzer “Twenty timid toads, trying to trot to Trenton” Outside a Winters Mill High School classroom, an unsuspecting passerby, hearing 75 adults inside seriously singing the silly little ditty, might think we...

Written By Lisa Breslin It may surprise many who venture into Westminster’s new wine bar that the owners, Patrice and Tony Campitelli, did not take a detour in life to become wine connoisseurs or just merchants of the grape....

Written By Donna Engle John M. Stewart Jr.’s masterwork unfolds along three walls of a Taneytown gift shop, a 268-foot mural done entirely with an airbrush. The painting fills the eye with portraits of prominent local citizens...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant On a frigid winter morning recently, in spite of the weather, Pat Brodowski, Paul Hawkins, Evie Matzke, Kay Sedlak and Linda Broadfoot were out checking the Carroll County Farm Museum’s Heirloom...