Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes Last year the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life events in Carroll County raised $443,000 to help battle cancer. In the same year, the Carroll County Arts Council’s Festival of Wreaths...

Written By Donna Engle When Shawn Lockhart picks up a gouge in her Union Bridge studio and begins to carve art out of a block, the result is likely to be a print filled with symbolism and suffused with the artist’s imagination....

Written By Patricia Rouzer Perhaps Carroll County’s glass ceiling hasn’t exactly shattered over the last several years, but it has clearly developed significant cracks. Once a male dominated domain, the county’s small business...

Written By Lisa Breslin More than 100 Union and Confederate soldiers and their dance partners gathered in the Longwell Armory Building in Westminster on June 28 for the Corbit’s Charge Ball. The ball was the culmination of a...

For more than 20 years, a small group of Westminster High School graduates has marked the calendar each month with “GNO.” As young girls, the 10 friends giggled about boys in high school, and, together, celebrated such rites of...

“My boyfriend’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble. Hey la, hey la, my boyfriend’s back.” The song has transcended generations, beginning decades ago with the scratch of needle on vinyl and continuing through to the clear...

Written By Lisa Breslin Things that lure us out of the house to look up at the sky: double rainbows, flocks of low-flying geese against the glow of a sunset, a solar eclipse, presidential or military helicopters and,...

Last year’s Antiques Appraisal Day turned up an 1898 “big wheel” bicycle that had been in Chris Heyn’s Westminster family for several generations. The vehicle, a safer successor to the Victorian “breakbone” cycle, was appraised...

Billed as Carroll County’s largest community charity event, Fallfest attracted more than 40,000 people to downtown Westminster last year for a Main Street parade, midway fun, rides, food, unique shopping and entertainment....

Written By Kimberly Liddick-Byrnes New Market, Maryland, is a little gem tucked away in the green stretches of rural Frederick County. Just a 40-minute drive from Westminster, the town has been evolving for more than 250 years...

Photos by: Phil Grout In a manner of speaking, Carroll County was born in a barn. The fact is, there are barns in Carroll County you will not find anywhere else in the world. There still are a couple of barns urging passing...

Written By Anne Blue When Kelly Chiavacci, Tom Welliver and Kevin Stewart watch their children playing in and around their houses in Westminster, they cannot fail to call up fond recollections of their own childhoods. The recall...