On an early Spring Saturday morning at the Carroll County Ag Center, Robot A, aka The Beast, looking like an Erector set device come to life, was not resting on its laurels as recent victor at the Mid-Atlantic VEX Championships, held in Westminster in March.

Businesses in Mt. Airy's downtown, burned out in 2007, have risen from the ashes and are busy again.

Melinda Byrd turns okra into Santa ornaments.For Bonnie Hood, a holiday dinner can be much more than just a meal. “My friends had me over for Thanksgiving,” she said. “They served oysters, and I was like, ‘Ooh, great! Can I take the shells h...

For many poll workers, it's not only a civic responsibility, it's a social occasion Eleanor Shipley, who works at West Middle School in Westminster at election time, has been serving as a poll worker so long that she cannot remember when she started...

If you have been to the Maryland Wine Festival, you know that there is more to it than clinking glasses, wine tasting, music, laughter, picnics, and – that ultimate experience – discovering a vintage so delicious that you just have to buy a few b...

Linda Nguyen applies nail polish to Joy Huynh while her parents, Don and Cindy, naturalized U.S. citizens, watch proudly. The mood in the Fallon Federal Building in Baltimore was solemn. A dozen or so people from nations around the world were about t...

It is just another evening at a busy Carroll County grocery store. A woman bagging groceries at the self checkout returns to her cart and lifts her purse out of the top basket to pay. Suddenly, she becomes aware of a man in a baseball cap, standing ...

Stepping into Sykesville artist Bruce Woodward’s home studio, you cannot help feeling that you are entering a kind of temple. In this sanctuary, candles flicker and soft music plays in the background. Solemn figures gaze down at you, adding to the ...

I have always been fascinated by ghost stories. In the past eight years, encouraged by Ghost Hunters and other paranormal TV shows, a whole new generation has descended upon haunted battlefields, spooky attics, and deserted insane asylums. I realized...