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Jeffrey Roth

Has received numerous Associated Press and national awards for both news and feature writing. His stories have appeared in several newspapers, including The Baltimore Sun and The Philadelphia Examiner, and he has written for Central Pennsylvania Magazine and other regional and national publications. Roth has taught a number of writing courses, most recently at Carroll Community College.

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Renaissance Graphic Novelist Mark Wheatley does it all: painting, drawing, writing and composing music.

Artist Mark Wheatley works at his drawing board on a cover for one of his graphic novels. Growing up in Tidewater, Va., Mark Wheatley loved comic books; a little too much, as far as his parents were concerned. “From about the fifth grade I was one ...

Fly-In Scheduled for Father's Day

For the past 21 years, ultra-light and sports pilots from Maryland, Pennsylvania and other states have flown into a grass runway strip in southern York County, just a few miles from the Mason-Dixon Line. Last year, poor visibility and a rain-soaked,...

Air Race to Frederick Marks 100th Anniversary of First Licensed Woman Pilot

Gail Mesa Norman is spokesperson for the Air Race Classic. Eighty-one years ago, when a group of women pilots, 
frustrated by the male-dominated world of flight and a prohibition against women competing in air races, proposed to hold a women-only, ...

Who's Your DADDY?

David Berry founded and runs Dad's Works, a program designed to teach fathers how to become better dads. The age of television fathers like Jim Anderson, Ozzie Nelson and Ward Cleaver has passed into oblivion, according to Deborah Clark Vance, associ...

What's a Mom Like on Mother's Day 2010?

Christine Stoehr, center, and her kids, left to right, Christa, Michael, Jenna, Randy and Jessica (Photography by Tara Hope Cofiell) Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, created Mother’s Day in 1907 to honor her mother, but came to regard the commercializ...

Motherhood Through The Ages

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~RajneeshIn English, the word “mother” represents one of the most evocative and symboli...

Clamping Down on Calories During the "Overeating Season"

Are you worried that by the end of the holidays, you might qualify as a contestant for TV’s weight-loss reality show, “The Biggest Loser?” Never fear. By following simple strategies, you can avoid one of the season’s nastiest pitfalls: overea...

Flowserve Corp: Pumping Up the World

Many Carroll County residents may be surprised to learn that a Taneytown-based manufacturing plant is part of one of the world’s leading producers of fluid control technology and equipment. The plant is part of Flowserve Corporation, which maintain...