Written By Joanne Morvay Weant When Cindy Pehl and Doug Metz mention their hobby to strangers, the couple knows by now to expect an awkward reaction. “You tell people you collect black American art and the response is...

Written By Donna Engle Carroll bicyclist Georgia Glashauser, a 53-year-old engineer who has ridden across the U.S. three times and written a book, Bicycle from Sea to Shining Sea, about her experiences, enters the natural world...

Written By Patricia Bianca Eldersburg’s Barbara Northrop is petite, elegant and by nature, no-nonsense. Crazy red hats, plastic crowns and gaudy purple outfits are probably the last kind of presents that she expected to receive...

Written By Patricia Rouzer How green is our county? Let’s just say we would not overwhelm Al Gore with the intensity of our communal hue. Although there are some positive signs, our commitment to shrinking our collective carbon...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant When Thanksgiving dawns, most residents of Carroll County follow the holiday’s customary agenda. The day has always been an occasion for gathering family and friends. So we gather, we pray and we...

Written By Patricia Bianca They cluster together in a darkened room: men, women and children – illuminated only by flickering candlelight. After a general reading about the importance of remembrance, they approach an...

Written By Lisa Breslin For one week during the summer – July 28 through August 3 – thousands of people visited the Carroll County Agriculture Center and the Danele Shipley Memorial Arena for the annual Carroll...

Written By Lisa Breslin Ten-year-old Skylar Hull’s life revolves around horses and hard work. Every birthday that she can remember, she has asked her grandfather, “Poppy” (Edward Shock of Westminster), “Is my pony waiting for me...

Written By Lisa Breslin The artwork of Constance A. “Coni” Humphrey reflects the personality of its late creator: quirky, sensitive, refined and sometimes raucous and raw. Throughout the month of December, the drawings and...

Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes The YMCA has big plans for the former Westminster Inn, which it now owns. Built as a school around the end of the 19th century, the Westminster Inn sits in the heart of the city between Main...

Written By Lisa Breslin A local group of determined independent film buffs are in their fourth and hopefully soon-to-be-final year of production on a feature film–shot in 16 mm–about a newlywed who, still dressed in...

Written By Sherwood Kohn Halloween and Thanksgiving (or rather the day after Thanksgiving) now rival Christmas for the title of most lucrative marketing holidays of the year. It has always seemed misleading to refer to the day...