Written By Patricia Bianca While other public school districts struggle with low test score averages and rising crime rates, Carroll County’s public school system apparently boasts a proliferation of scholastic superstars....

Written By Anne Blue When Piney Ridge Elementary School opens its doors later this month, six-year-old Harrison Kluge will be arriving in a fire truck. Knowing her son’s passion for firefighters, when Lori Witmer-Kluge heard...

Written By Patricia Rouzer The Friendship School’s fine new exterior walls are ringed with familiar names, among them Leonardo DaVinci, Albert Einstein, and John Lennon – all geniuses. And like the 57 students who attend...

Written By Evan Balkan Just across the Rio Grande in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, filmmaker Leo Eaton rides headlong into a storm on a horse that threatens to buck him off. He grips the reins and utters a prayer. Spooked by...

Written By Cari Pierce You may have attended a 4-H Fair at the Carroll County Agricultural Center. Or a rodeo, a monster truck bash, dog show or sportsman’s expo. And you may have thought that taxpayers were footing some of the...

Written By Mary Spiro According to the saying, “Dog is man’s best friend.” But the truism needs qualification: “A trained dog is man’s best friend.” I have shared my life with all sorts of canines, from mutts to pure breeds. I...

Written By Sherwood Kohn If you were Albert Einstein in 1905, when he was working as a patent clerk and living in Berne, Switzerland, developing his theory of relativity, what kind of dreams would you have? That was the premise...

Written By Jill Stone As Sinatra tunes blanketed the dimly lit room, cheers from guests punctuated the sounds of the spinning roulette wheel, the bouncing dice, and the flipping cards. No, it wasn’t Las Vegas. It was Casino...

Written By Donna Engle One wall of the recreation room in Jerry Baugher’s house near Mount Airy is filled with hundreds of brightly colored patches, souvenirs of trails trekked across America and in Europe, 20,000 kilometers...

Written By Jill Stone One drumbeat sets the rhythm. Boom tap, boom tap, boom, boom tap. Gradually other drummers move in until the layers of rhythms are so complex that the beats bounce off the wood floors and skim along the...

Written By Jane Frutchey Blink your eyes as you drive on Uniontown Road and you might miss Uniontown entirely. That’s one good reason to park your car and walk, savoring the sights and sounds of one of Carroll County’s most...

Written By Cari Pierce The garage, driveway and yard were strewn with camping equipment, dishes, clothing and furniture that just didn’t make the merge of households. I had shopped my fair share of yard sales. I had never held...