Written By David Greisman It involves chicks and it’s billed as a peep show. But it comes after Easter and it isn’t what you think it is. Forget religion. Forget bared flesh. This “Peep Show,” running from April 3 through April...

Written By Patricia Rouzer Each weekday morning and evening, Carroll countians–some 55,000 of them–like proverbial lemmings thronging to the sea, take to their vehicles for their relentless journeys to and from work....

Written By Cari Pierce Emily Condon, a full-time teacher who lives in Manchester, sells PartyLite candles out of her home part-time. She started with the company in February 2006. She was drawn to the business, not just for the...

Written By David Greisman As the story goes, President Calvin Coolidge was touring a farm with his wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, when the two were taken in separate directions. Mrs. Coolidge was shown a large, prize rooster, a...

Written By Lisa Breslin More than 300 people gathered in the Babylon Great Hall at Carroll Community College on Sunday, December 9, for an elegant reception and an evening of entertainment by composer and performer Marvin...

Written By Lisa Breslin Obnoxious, pushy, inattentive, nonresponsive. A horse that is “far from ideal” has many of those characteristics, according to Scott Purdum, 21, creator of Advantage Horsemanship in Union Bridge,...

Written By Lisa Breslin Barbara and Becca love to come to the Union Street Community Center in Westminster to read or create crafts. When Ray comes through the doors, he morphs into a rock star who entertains everyone who will...

Al Younger says he connects better with dogs than he does with humans. He doesn’t know how or why, but he is able to communicate with dogs. He understands them and knows how their minds work. If you ask him, he says he has just...

Written By Sherwood Kohn As more commuters drive to work, Carroll County, like the rest of the nation, suffers from an intensifying traffic problem (see “Road Cage”. One aspect of the problem is another growing phenomenon-road...

Photos by: Phil Grout Snacks and harness racing horses are Hanover, Pennsylvania’s major claims to fame. And early on, Thomas Jefferson was a frequent guest at a popular Hanover inn in 1776 when he was commuting between...

Written By Patricia Bianca As the nation celebrates Martin Luther King , Jr. Day on January 21, a little old graveyard known as Ellsworth will sit quietly in the shadows of modern commercialism as it has for years, sandwiched...

Written By Steve Jones A current television commercial states that “life comes at you fast.” So how can working parents and their children get a break from the increasing pace of everyday life and the seemingly endless...