Keep My Daddy Safe

Written By Sherwood Kohn Master Sgt. William Yohn is home with his family in Manchester for Armed Forces Day (May 20) this year. He wasn’t last year, and it was difficult for his 5-year-old son, Isaac to understand. About the...

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A Star in the Classroom

Written By Patricia Rouzer Some of us just go to a “job” everyday; others carefully plot “career paths” calculated to bring fame or fortune. But for April Sexton, work is a true vocation–a calling that delivers...

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Shopping Down the Bunny Trail

Written By Karen Nitkin Little girls in frilly dresses, bunnies made of chocolate and gorgeous hats. What’s not to love about Easter? There’s a scent of spring in the air, a desire to clear away the dark colors of winter and...

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Inspiring the Young

Written By Anne Blue The Children’s Chorus of Carroll County moves into its third decade of inspiring the young through music when it performs a special 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert on April 23. Plans for the celebration,...

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“Naked Ladies” Have the Market Covered

Written By Lisa Breslin When Westminster resident JoAnne Borrelli first joined a women’s investment group in 1999, she said she “didn’t know the difference between an IPO and the A&P.” Like many of the other women in the...

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A Gala “Family Reunion”

The first Saturday in March marks perhaps the biggest family reunion in this region; it is so big that it fills the ballroom at Martin’s West in Woodlawn, MD. The reunion is actually the annual Spring Gala, a black tie event to...

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Manchester: A Town that Feels Like Home

Written By Evan Balkan A visitor to Manchester availing himself of the abundant parking along Main Street might get the sense that something is amiss. As he fumbles for quarters, he will soon realize that there are no parking...

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Vernal Volume

Written By Sherwood Kohn Poet T.S. Eliot claimed that April was the cruelest month, but he neglected to include May; not just because those months herald the arrival of spring, and some of us who are long in the tooth have...

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Hearts and Fancies

Written By Karen Nitkin Wine is fine and candy is dandy, but why not think outside the (chocolate) box this Valentine’s Day, with some creative gifts from local merchants and artists? The Bold and the Beautiful. Gift-givers...

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One Stop Transformation

Written By Cari Pierce “I have…between 5:45 a.m. and 5:50 a.m. to put on makeup and do my hair during the week,” said Christine Murphy. “I have to be absolutely realistic.” Indeed. Christine, 35, who commutes from...

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Focus on Beauty

Written By Evan Balkan Glamor is not the point. Beauty is. To Eldersburg artist Paula Waterman, a heifer grazing in Carroll County is as majestic a sight as a sunbathing cheetah in the Kenyan savannah. Paula makes her living as...

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