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...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant Locavore. The term sounds like a reference to a prehistoric creature, long extinct. In fact, locavore is a modern word (a combination of the Latin words for “local” and “eater”) for a practice that...

Written By Donna Engle Each spring, the basement of Fred K. and Janice Teeter’s Uniontown home becomes a nursery for about 100 chirping fluff balls. It is all because of the pheasant who came into their lives six years ago. He...

Written By Patricia Rouzer Like a summer day chilled by a sudden storm, Carroll County’s once blistering-hot housing market has cooled precipitously in past months. But local real estate professionals, builders, bankers and...

The family of one of Westminster’s most distinguished citizens has donated $50,000 for community improvement. In ceremonies at the sixth annual Fallfest Gala on April 12 at Martin’s Westminster that kicked off the Fallfest...

Written By Lisa Breslin The Granite House Second Annual Rock Ball, held on April 26 at The Portico of St. John in Westminster, featured cocktails, dinner, dancing, a silent auction and surprise performances by rock legends Chaka...

Written By David Greisman The Big Apple for a day can keep the doldrums away. The distance from downtown Westminster to the heart of New York City is some 215 miles, a four-hour journey by car beyond the beltway, up Interstate...

Written By Linda Morton In a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, the second president, John Adams, wrote, “I believe that it [Independence Day] will be celebrated by succeeding Generations as the great anniversary...

Ten final contestants belted out their best songs during the Carroll’s Idol 2008 Grand Finale at Grace Hall in Westminster on April 25, and Cara Wolf, a 19-year-old musical theater major at Carroll Community College, captured...

Written By Lisa Breslin Audience members pounded crab mallets and rang cowbells, shouted pirate chants and “way to go” as nine teams of three spellers wrestled with words like succor, feckless, exegesis, diptych and parlous at...

Written By Patricia Bianca First came Precious. The scrawny feline had sought the cool shade of my porch as a respite from the sun-drenched fields behind my home. Next came Chin, who set up camp on my deck to stalk the field...

Written By Cathy Drinkwater Better I look forward to Mother’s Day each year. That’s when my three grown kids make a fuss over me and put me up on a pedestal to let me know how special they think I am. Unfortunately, the...