Written By Lisa Breslin More than 325 people filled Martin’s Westminster on October 12 to pay tribute to former Governor William Donald Schaefer and support the Carroll County Public Schools Education Foundation (CCPS). The...

Written By Lisa Breslin When Lynn Davis started as an intern at the Carroll County Youth Service Bureau (CCYSB) in the 1980s, she joined four other employees who bustled around a 1,600-square foot office above Frisco Pub in...

Written By Anne Blue On a clear winter evening, stars fill the sky above and lanterns line the walkway to the farmhouse. Costumed guides greet visitors and lead them through a home that has been transformed for the holidays into...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant It will be a different sort of Christmas this year for organist Tandy Edward Dix. Dix is a professional organist and professor of music who spent the past decade as the church organist and music...

Photos by: Phil Grout Glen Rock, Pennsylvania has been enchanting outsiders for more than 170 years, first by its verdant hills and valleys, then with its industrial potential and lately with nearby gatherings of those original...

Written By Donna Engle Whether Terry Whye is creating ceramic boats to sail her through a difficult life transition or helping students form and decorate magic boats to carry them wherever they dream of going, she–and...

Written by Vicki Anzmann It is a uniquely American custom: A social event focused on the lowered tailgate of a vehicle. Typically, it revolves around a football game, but fans of other sports also participate, and an actual...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant When Cindy Pehl and Doug Metz mention their hobby to strangers, the couple knows by now to expect an awkward reaction. “You tell people you collect black American art and the response is...

Written By Donna Engle Carroll bicyclist Georgia Glashauser, a 53-year-old engineer who has ridden across the U.S. three times and written a book, Bicycle from Sea to Shining Sea, about her experiences, enters the natural world...

Written By Patricia Bianca Eldersburg’s Barbara Northrop is petite, elegant and by nature, no-nonsense. Crazy red hats, plastic crowns and gaudy purple outfits are probably the last kind of presents that she expected to receive...

Written By Patricia Rouzer How green is our county? Let’s just say we would not overwhelm Al Gore with the intensity of our communal hue. Although there are some positive signs, our commitment to shrinking our collective carbon...

Written By Joanne Morvay Weant When Thanksgiving dawns, most residents of Carroll County follow the holiday’s customary agenda. The day has always been an occasion for gathering family and friends. So we gather, we pray and we...