Carroll County

Finksburg student goes from library volunteer to author

Zach Teal is just 17, but his love for books led him to write one of his own and to volunteer more than 250 hours at the Finksburg branch of the Carroll County Public Library.

Carroll commissioner creates monthly prayer session

A Carroll County commissioner has emailed an invitation to about 850 government employees to attend a monthly prayer session, which she will lead, raising concern among some residents and watchdog groups.

Carroll County schools to impose higher standard for extracurricular eligibility

Carroll County Public Schools will implement a higher academic requirement next school year for high school students participating in extracurricular activities — a move that school officials said has been under consideration for some time, but got a nudge with the passage of a law mandating a...

Carroll residents accuse Board of Commissioners of violating open meetings rules

Debate over the meaning of gold-colored sheets of paper passed among members of the Carroll County Board of Commissioners has pitted the elected officials against residents who allege they are thumbing their noses at state open meetings rules.

4.5-mile conveyor would carry stone to Carroll cement plant

For nearly a century, Carroll County's smallest town has supplied stone to the massive Lehigh Cement Co. plant that employs many in the community. But the company finds itself at a crossroads — with the quarry nearly depleted, it is eyeing a new supply from a limestone-rich mine that it owns...

Eldersburg residents wary of senior housing proposal

Just about the only excitement in the semi-rural residential neighborhood near the intersection of Oklahoma and Bennett roads, in Eldersburg, is provided by occasional errant motorists who misjudge the sharp downhill curve on Oklahoma where it approaches Bennett from the northeast and either end...