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Earlier this week, I had an opportunity to see a side of Carroll County many people don't. In one case, that view was from some 400 feet in the air above Union Bridge, near the very top of the tower at the Lehigh Cement plant.

I might from Boise, Idaho, a town hours and hours away from the nearest pro baseball team-glancing at a map I'd say the Seattle Mariners are the closest I could get to a hometown team-but I was raised by a rabid Dodgers fan.

Charles Edward Brandt, Jr., a retired metals executive, died of cancer complications.

Embracing West Coast means leaving Laurel far behind

Col. Erland A. Tillman, a decorated career Army officer and noted civil engineer who helped design the Maryland Transit Administration's Metro subway from Owings Mills into downtown Baltimore, died of complications from heart failure Sept. 6 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.

Rather than building a new Bay Bridge, Maryland should consider high speed rail connecting the Eastern and Western shores.