25 years ago:

Carroll Commissioner J. Norman Graham recently stated the county is ready to purchase a 50-acre tract in Eldersburg, if the school board is in accord, for building the proposed Southeast Area High School. The site is across from a large planned clothing warehouse, bounded by Route 32, Johnsville and Bartholow roads. This will be the county's fifth high school and is scheduled for completion in September 1977. When the school is completed, attendance lines for Westminster and South Carroll high schools will be redrawn. School board approval of this project is expected. -- the Community Reporter, May 10, 1974.