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- Everyone knows that birds fly south for the winter.
- Season 2 of Serial is now available for fans of the popular podcast series.
- For many, the annual Carroll County Jazz Ensemble's Big Band Merry Christmas Concert has become a tradition, and it's back again for its 14th year.
- The Carrollton Church of God, at 2151 Bethel Road, Finksburg, is having its 5th annual Fall Harvest Festival at the church from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.
- Manchester Elementary School's Playground Fund Committee will hold a bingo night Saturday, Oct. 3.
- Health advocates have begun the final push to enroll citizens in insurance plans through the Maryland health exchange.
- Churches host Christmas bazaars and fire company plans Breakfast with Santa – all in Central Carroll area
- Leonard George Getschel III, a graduate gemologist and Smyth Jewelers executive who managed its Ellicott City store, ended his life Oct. 19. The Lutherville resident was 37.
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- Char-Lene Farm, between Taylorsville and Mount Airy, will host its annual Farm Fest from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 27, with 10 percent of proceeds going to For 3 Sisters breast cancer organization
- When you think of rock music you probably don't think about "Super Mario Bros." or "Space Invaders." To our surprise and probably yours too, a sub-culture of video game rock bands? A thing.
- Among the changes guitarist/bassist Richard Walton has seen over the decades he's been involved in the area music scene, some of the more recent ones have taken wind from his sails.
- The candidates running in Maryland's June 24 primary election are slowly beginning to embrace an increasingly sophisticated campaign technique known as micro-targeting that allows them to identify potential supporters and aim advertising — as well as personal contacts — directly at those individuals.
- Welcome to the world to our new grandson, Caden Jacob Southall, who was born on Monday, Feb. 10 at 8:20 p.m. He was 8 pounds, 3 ounces and 21 ¼ inches (he weighed the same as his daddy did back in 1977).
- Some who were at The Mall in Columbia during the shootings are experiencing restless nights, troubled dreams, anxious thoughts. Counselors have stepped in to help, saying these are natural after effects but should they persists, people need to seek additional help
- There is plenty of good news from Clarksville Middle School this week. The CMS Band Concert is scheduled for Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m.
- Glenelg High School boys and girls track teams recently competed at the Bishop Loughlin Games in New York City.
- Got unwanted, functional tools? Consider donating the tools to Mt. Hebron High School's Ragnarok Robotics Club. The student club members are hosting their annual tool drive in order to build a 150 lb. custom robot for their entry in the international FIRST Robotics FRC competition.
- Fall is a beautiful season, and a wonderful way to celebrate is at Fall Fest, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 4-8 p.m., hosted by Grace Episcopal Church, 6720 Montgomery Road, in Elkridge.
- HopHacks — a 36-hour, sleepless, caffeine-fueled, mad-rush of computer programming — came to an end Sunday with bleary-eyed Johns Hopkins University students unveiling their (mostly) finished inventions ... and then crashing.
- A guy walks into a sports bar in Hampden and ¿ wait, back up, back up. A bar catering to a bunch of jocks located in Hipsterville, Maryland?
- For all the hype and all the "next big things" that have flashed across the screen and died small, it really does feel like the revolution in TV viewing has arrived.
- Millennial Media isn't letting stock market swings distract it from a mission to compete with Google, Apple and Facebook in the mobile advertising market.
- A former Cathedral of Mary Our Queen School teacher, who lost her arms and legs, has passed a special driver's test but needs funds to buy a car and get it specially adapted. The latter alone may cost $14,000. But she has help from a bevy of former students. The children are continuing to raise money, most recently at a fundraiser at the eatery Zen West Sept. 30.
- With the release of its iPhone app last week, Woofound, a Middle River startup, took its first big step into a competitive, cutting edge and sometimes controversial part of the digital economy: Web personalization.
- Government propaganda doesn't belong on U.S. airwaves
- Baltimore's Millennial Media founded in 2006, now dominant in mobile ad market
- A resurgence in spending by the luxury consumer is expected to benefit stores that sell accessories, jewelry and apparel, as sales of luxury branded goods jumped 10 percent to $252 billion worldwide.
- For many small investors, some of the companies they are most familiar with are the e-commerce and social media sites they use every day.