Jon Kelvey

Carroll County farmers once lead the world in the production of the oily, medicinal wormseed plant. Can newly legal industrial hemp play a similar role for local agriculture in the 21st century?

It was his sophomore year at South Carroll High School when the now-graduating senior Nicholas Bloch burst into the extracurricular scene, competing in basketball, soccer and power lifting. A year later he would take on leadership roles in school groups.

Graduating Winters Mill High School senior Addison Lomax has a philosophy in life exemplified by a simple rule of thumb: Why not?

The story of two Carroll County women who had been missing since April 6 appears to have ended in tragedy in West Virginia.

The Maryland presidential primary election and associated down ballot races, including the three-way race for a Carroll County Circuit Court judgeship, is currently underway — via the mail.

The town of Manchester has a budget for Fiscal Year 2021, following the town council’s unanimous passage of Ordinance 245 at their Tuesday meeting, conducted remotely over a video conference call. The adopted budget is balanced at $5,263,882 in total, with a general fund balanced at $3,217,849, a water fund balanced at $1,069,400 and sewer fund balanced at $976,633.

Carroll Hospital has new leadership in incoming President Garret Hoover. Hoover has more than 30 years of experience in health care administration and was most recently the president and chief operating officer of Corning Hospital, in Corning, New York.

The Town of Hampstead introduced its fiscal year 2021 budget during the Tuesday meeting of the mayor and council over Zoom. The town council will vote on adopting the budget at its June 9 meeting.

The Carroll County Health Department has begun hiring contract tracers to help with mitigation efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Democratic Carroll County voters have until June 2 to get their mail-in ballot post-marked and have their voices heard in the Democratic presidential primary election, but there is another race on the ballot open to all voters in the county: The seat on the Carroll County Circuit Court bench currently held by Judge Richard Titus.