Written By Donna Engle For nearly a decade, a hospital emergency room was the only health care Melissa Gilbert had. Without insurance, the 26-year old Mount Airy woman could not afford to pay a private physician. Every few...

Written By Donna Engle When Jackie Smith makes coffee in the morning at her Westminster home, her cat is sometimes under foot. But where you can always find her fuzzy friend is on the wall above her kitchen counter. YesÉ on the...

Written by Joanne Morvay Weant Ronda Nichols was six years old when she first slid a brand new leather mitt onto her hand and took her position on the softball field. Twenty-eight years later, Nichols still loves putting on a...

Written By Lisa Breslin More than 600 people gathered at Martin’s West in Baltimore on March 1 to dine, dance and celebrate the services and accomplishments of Westminster-based Target Community and Educational Services, Inc....

Written By Patricia Rouzer “Twenty timid toads, trying to trot to Trenton” Outside a Winters Mill High School classroom, an unsuspecting passerby, hearing 75 adults inside seriously singing the silly little ditty, might think we...

Written By Lisa Breslin It may surprise many who venture into Westminster’s new wine bar that the owners, Patrice and Tony Campitelli, did not take a detour in life to become wine connoisseurs or just merchants of the grape....

Written By Donna Engle John M. Stewart Jr.’s masterwork unfolds along three walls of a Taneytown gift shop, a 268-foot mural done entirely with an airbrush. The painting fills the eye with portraits of prominent local citizens...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant On a frigid winter morning recently, in spite of the weather, Pat Brodowski, Paul Hawkins, Evie Matzke, Kay Sedlak and Linda Broadfoot were out checking the Carroll County Farm Museum’s Heirloom...

Written By David Greisman It involves chicks and it’s billed as a peep show. But it comes after Easter and it isn’t what you think it is. Forget religion. Forget bared flesh. This “Peep Show,” running from April 3 through April...

Written By Patricia Rouzer Each weekday morning and evening, Carroll countians–some 55,000 of them–like proverbial lemmings thronging to the sea, take to their vehicles for their relentless journeys to and from work....

Written By Cari Pierce Emily Condon, a full-time teacher who lives in Manchester, sells PartyLite candles out of her home part-time. She started with the company in February 2006. She was drawn to the business, not just for the...

Written By David Greisman As the story goes, President Calvin Coolidge was touring a farm with his wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, when the two were taken in separate directions. Mrs. Coolidge was shown a large, prize rooster, a...