Written By Sheila Herbst Last winter my husband and I took out an old fence behind our house. We suspected that hidden among the honeysuckle, something more sinister was lurking: poison ivy. We were right. Spring brought a neat...

Written By David Greisman Every year, we greet Memorial Day with proverbial open arms – the three-day weekend marks the unofficial beginning of summer, weeks before the solstice brings the true start to the season. We...

Written By Patricia Rouzer Back in the 1930s, songwriter Cole Porter wrote a ballad called “Anything Goes,” in which he decried the increased substitution of four-letter words by authors “who once knew better words.” He could...

Written By Lisa Breslin More than 500 people gathered for the 8th Annual Taste of Carroll at Antrim 1844 on May 21. They dined, drank and dropped plenty of dollars for a worthy cause – Carroll Hospice programs and...

120 Entries Expected For Arts Council Show The Carroll County Arts Council, in partnership with the Carroll County Artists Guild, will host the 5th Annual Members Art Exhibit, starting August 16. More than 120 entries are...

The Experts at Antiques Appraisal Day may Tell You It’s Worth a Fortune. “We like dirt,” said Robert Harrison, the chairman of this year’s Antiques Appraisal Day. Harrison, who is the proprietor of Harrison Appraisals, LLC in...

Written By Patricia Bianca Although it is a common practice for U.S. towns to adopt a sister city in Europe, adopting a European musical band is far more unique. Leave it to Taneytown to kick-start the trend. “Taneytown,” the...

By Photos by: Phil Grout To put it bluntly, Mabel Reese “ain’t dead yet.” That line comes from a favorite poem by Canadian poet Ross Ingram, that the 86-year old Westminster native loves to recite whenever she can gather an...

Written By Lisa Breslin For 16 years folks have gathered on the field across the street from the Lineboro Volunteer Fire Department to wait, watch and coax a cow to drop a “pie” in a square that they hoped would bear their...

Written By Cori Simpson Each June in Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, the curtain goes up on a three-month run of plays and musicals under the auspices of the Theatre on the Hill. This year marked the beginning of a new era for...

By Photos by: Phil Grout On September 1, the nation will have celebrated labor day for 114 years. An outgrowth of the labor movement in the 19th century, the holiday has come to mean much more than a day set aside by Congress to...

At first glance, Finksburg is a blur of gas stations and car lots with a red light or two between Westminster and work. But there is a handful of residents who can look beyond the intersection of Routes 140 and 91, and recall...