With a little whimsy, imagination, and an assortment of skills and resources on hand, creating a special Valentine gift is easy. And what could be more heartfelt than fashioning a handmade gift or offering a special service?...

Holiday entertaining is often connected with elegant, sit-down dinners. On such occasions, fine china, elegant table linens and multiple courses of sumptuous fare abound. But during the holiday season, one cannot forget about...

Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes Jonathan Slade’s “real” job is as a professor in the communications department at his alma mater, McDaniel College. A Carroll County native, his passion, and what he considers his work, is film...

Written By Susan Fair Stepping into Sykesville artist Bruce Woodward’s home studio, you cannot help feeling that you are entering a kind of temple. In this sanctuary, candles flicker and soft music plays in the background....

Written By Karen Kohn Wake up your holiday cheer with a rousing big band sound, step back in time to the harmonies of a barbershop chorus or thrill to the heights of Vivaldi’s “Gloria”.Whatever your musical tastes, Carroll...

Written By Patricia Rouzer Forget the jolly fat man with the red suit, reindeer-powered sleigh and elf-equipped North Pole workshop. For some Carroll kids, Santa wears a uniform, totes a gun, drives a high performance car...

Written By Donna Engle Garlands of barbed wire trimmed with bows of homespun; a nine-foot tall Christmas tree bearing thousands of glimmering hand-blown Victorian glass ornaments; an indoor tree decked with birdhouses; outdoor...

Written By Jeffrey Roth Many Carroll County residents may be surprised to learn that a Taneytown-based manufacturing plant is part of one of the world’s leading producers of fluid control technology and equipment. The plant is...

Written By Lisa Breslin On a recent Friday this fall, Hampstead resident Pat Brodowski replenished the garden soil with compost. She planted seeds: spinach, turnips, lettuce, and transplanted cauliflower and celery. She saved...

Written By Anne Blue A year ago, Amy Moore was a second-year nursing student at Carroll Community College. As a single parent, she was struggling to get herself through school and take care of her three children. Completing her...

Written By Lisa Breslin For 10 years, The Women’s Place in Westminster has been a refuge for thousands of Carroll County residents. Certainly, most of the 8,300 people who walked through the doors at 200 Memorial Avenue for...

Written By Sherwood Kohn “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it...