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Lisa Breslin

Lisa Breslin is a former editor of the Carroll County Times and has written for The Carroll Sund and The Baltimore Sun. Currently she teaches at McDaniel College. She lives in Westminster with her husband, Jim, and daughters Kyleen and Kate.

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Passing on the Torch to Open Special Olympics

Representatives from every section of Carroll’s law enforcement community and athletes from the Special Olympics assembled in Westminster on a rainy Wednesday in June to carry the Special Olympics torch for the final leg of its journey to Towson f...

Beer and Labels With Attitude

Beer and food will be the main attractions on September 25 when hundreds of homebrew and microbrew enthusiasts gather for the Fourth Annual Maryland Microbrewery Festival at Union Mills Homestead in Westminster. But another aspect of the brewers’ ...

Taste of Carroll Raises More Than $105,000

Some 500 people gathered at the Antrim 1844 in Taneytown on May 17 for the 11th Annual Taste of Carroll. The event included a meet and greet with Kendel Ehrlich and former Gov. Robert H. Ehrlich Jr., followed by a food and wine tasting and a silent ...

Local Time Travelers Reenact June 29, 1863

Anyone who strolled near Westminster’s Center Street on the last weekend in June had to wonder if they had stepped back in time. Re-enactors representing both the Union and Confederate sides relived the sights, sounds, smells and emotions of the C...

Sports Hall of Famers

Five local athletes were inducted into the 2010 Carroll County Sports Hall of Fame at a banquet at Carroll Community College on April 9. The Rotary Club of Westminster was host of the ceremony. More than 150 people attended the event. The five induct...

Target Gala Raises $50,000 For Disabled

More than 400 people attended Target Community & Educational Services, Inc.’s Spring Gala at Martin’s West on March 6. Organizers estimate that the event raised $50,000, which will help Target achieve its mission to enhance the lives of children and adults with disabilities through quality, community-based residential, educational, vocational, recreational and family support services.

Library Discussion Series Features Author Logan Ward

Lynn Beard is a key organizer for the Carroll County Public Library’s “On The Same Page” program. A creative partnership between Carroll County Public Library (CCPL), the local farm bureau and the Carroll County History Project is giving new, r...

The Squeak of the Chalk, the Thrill of the Menu

Working on a chalkboard menu for Harry’s Main Street Grille Jonathan Helwig draws in the green of a football field for the restaurant’s Super Bowl bill of fare. Restaurants and bars from Westminster to Sykesville have been engaging artists to ado...

Coffee Mates

Betsy Beveridge, an admissions counselor at McDaniel College, and Jon Roenick, a systems administrator for Carroll Hospital Center, were supposed to meet on a fall Sunday at 10:30 a.m., before the Ravens played the Minnesota Vikings. Betsy wanted the...

Transplanted to History - Local Horticulturist Joins Monticello Team

On a recent Friday this fall, Hampstead resident Pat Brodowski replenished the garden soil with compost. She planted seeds: spinach, turnips, lettuce, and transplanted cauliflower and celery. She saved some for future crops and set aside okra and red...