Written By Lisa Breslin When the Y of Central Maryland bought the old Westminster Inn and East End Athletic Club more than a year ago for $1 million, it planned to sell its facilities on Sykesville Road, renovate the newly...

Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes When Randy Arrington gets ready for work, he puts on his steel-toed boots, protective goggles, ear coverings, and chaps. Then he walks out to his barn, where he is greeted by rows of wooden...

Written By Donna Engle You leave your car in the parking lot while you work or shop or have lunch. When you return, you find a scrape or dent where someone’s car door hit yours. Or someone backed into your car and left the...

Written By Scott Braden At a recent hair appointment, Bo’s “parents,” the Felkners of Union Bridge, MD, wanted something different for him: something that would allow him to stand out. So they went punk rock and had stylist...

Written By Patricia Rouzer Gasoline, grocery, clothing, health insurance and utility costs escalate. Layoffs increase as the number of available jobs decline. Adjustable rate mortgages go one way: up. Stock market averages lurch...

Written By Ed Okonowicz You know it is time when the calendar tells you it is the last week of October. The wind knows, too, and it starts blowing stronger and colder. The trees also give you a signal, shedding leaves and...

Written By Lisa Breslin The Community Foundation of Carroll County has honored the Robert and Janice Kirkner and Daniel and Eleanor Shipley families, WTTR Radio, The Shepherd’s Staff and North Carroll High School Junior Allyson...

Written By Lisa Breslin Bring the peanuts. Forget the Crackerjacks. There will be plenty of those, but they will be of the political kind. Local Republicans and Democrats will put aside political barbs in October, at least for a...

Written By Sherwood Kohn Tom Crowl, an intense, voluble gentleman of 5 feet, 6 inches, 45 years, thinning brown hair, a graying mustache and bright blue eyes, sat on one of the old red theater seats in the lobby of the Carroll...

Written By Lisa Breslin Christmas came to Westminster resident Kathy Brown’s house on a hot day in July. Eight elves decorated small Christmas trees in themes that honored cultures around the world, tucking gifts beneath each...

Written By Lisa Breslin Once a day, Westminster resident Lisa Ruppel works on a scarf. In fact, once a day for more than a year, she has crocheted and knitted soft scarves with calming colors and donated them to organizations...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant A Maryland crab crawls on Rudi Tosti. The crab’s shiny blue-gray shell glistens with tiny water bubbles. The delicate feathery scales lining the crab’s legs lay gently on Tosti’s left shoulder....