Written By Lisa Breslin Finksburg resident Ryan Koons learned some amazing lessons during his junior year at Dickinson College this year, but most of them were not in the classroom. Koons joined a team of college students and...

Written By Lisa Breslin Carroll County businessman Melvin Mills, Jr. has received The Carroll Hospital Center Foundation’s Community Spirit Award. On April 3, during a black-tie dinner attended by more than 200 prominent...

Written By Lisa Breslin Before the last Friday in April, Martin O’Malley had obviously led a sheltered life. But that is all over. On that day, Maryland’s governor went to his first Peep Show. “My mother told me to stay away...

Written By Lisa Breslin The annual Fourth of July fireworks will continue at the Carroll County Farm Museum, but funding continues to dwindle, according to local organizers. Aided by countless volunteers and funded by donations,...

Written By Anne Blue When Stephanie Moore, of Wesminster, acquired her Great Dane, Levon, eight years ago, she was transformed from a casual animal fan into an an avid pet lover and advocate. “Levon was an amazing pet,”...

Written By Donna Engle On any given day, an increasing number of Carroll Countians are aiming their buns skyward and their heads down like puppies inviting play, standing wide-legged with one knee bent and arms outstretched like...

Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes Carroll County could soon be on the map in a whole new way: as a place where some of the most unique guitars in the country are created. And not only that, but some of the country’s biggest...

Written By Jim Burger It is a cold night outside the Martin’s Westminster, but inside the atmosphere is warm and bright. Three hundred and eighty employees of the General Dynamics Robotics Systems have gathered there for their...

Written By Donna Engle As Donna Scrivner cooks breakfast at her Westminster home, she thinks about her son, Ryan Payne. Has he had dinner? Is he all right? Seven hours ahead and 6,000 miles east, Marine Cpl. Ryan Payne may be...

Written By Lisa Breslin The costumes were elegant and horrifying, humorous and raunchy. Some attendees revealed their identifies; a few assumed aliases for the night. More than 125 people attended The Carroll Technology...

Written By Laura Barhardt Cech In a photo from his toddler days, you can see the future Sam Koch. Although he is in diapers, he is kicking a football. The Nebraska native has been perfecting those skills since elementary school...

Written By Lisa Breslin When the weather is warm, there is no missing it: wafting over the rolling hills beyond Union Mills from the Sterner Family’s backyard is the tantalizing smell of fresh baked bread. The baker (and bread...