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- Speed camera issue goes to voters on May 4
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle in News, Crime
- (This story has been updated.) SYKESVILLE — Voters in the Town of Sykesville will decide this week whether people will be caught on film if they are caught speeding in town limits. Registered vote...
- Adedeji earns Carroll Co. Teacher of the Year honor
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle in Education
- Century High School's Sharon Adedeji will have a chance to be Maryland's teacher of the year after being named as the recipient of Carroll County's Teacher of the Year Award April 29. Janetta Jayman, supervisor of English and World...
- MOM: Our spring 'To-Do' lists should always include an escape clause
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in Community
- I recently made myself a "To-Do" list. It goes beyond my normal weekly list, which includes grocery shopping, grading papers for school, doing a ridiculous amount of laundry and paying bills. This new list is the daunting, I-never-se...
- Correction
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in Opinion
- A story in the April 18 edition of The Eagle, "Tales from beyond the grave at Sykesville History Walk," states an incorrect burial place for Elizabeth "Betsy" Patterson, a local resident who was married to Napoleon Bonaparte's brother,...
- Volunteer appreciation month is a great time to say thanks
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in News
- In 2008, according to the Corporation for National & Community Service, 61.8 million Americans (or 26.4 percent of the adult population) contributed eight billion hours of volunteer service to the nation's not-for-profits. These ...
- Manchester Valley students pursue green trail off campus
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in Education
- Students from Manchester Valley High School fanned out across the school campus — and the community — on Earth Day as the school marked its first Service and Green School Activity Day. The Green School Activity Day on April 22 was conceived by the...
- Mums and moms are blooming in Sykesville
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle in News, Community
- SYKESVILLE — As Tammie Polk of Eldersburg works festivals to sell her dips, dessert mixes and whole leaf teas over the Mother's Day weekend, she'll have her daughter to thank for the business' name -- Emma's Gourmet Gifts. "Emma is my youngest d...
- Sykesville studies cock-a-doodle-do's and dont's of chickens
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle in News
- Sykesville resident Kim Pickett loves organic living and organic food, and hopes an idea she's hatched turns out sunny-side up. So far, though, it has town officials scrambling. Pickett has requested that the Town of Sykesville amend one of its residen...
- 10 Days 05-02
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in Events
- Sunday 05-02 Union Mills in bloom The Flower and Plant Market at Union Mills Homestead, 3311 Littlestown Pike, Westminster, continues Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., with plants, vendors, gifts and tours of the ho...
- Good behavior gets you a quick visit inside the Detention Center
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in Community
- If you were ever curious as to what a detention center is like on the inside -- that is, when you can still leave of your own free will after the visit -- the Carroll County Detention Center, in Westminster, has an event just for you. The detention cen...
- Flowers, crafts and all that jazz in Westminster
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle in News, Community
- The last two years have seen raindrops on roses, but hopes are high that the sun will shine on the Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival for this year's edition, May 8. Since 1991, the City of Westminster has filled Main Street with flowering plants, cr...
- Carroll jury awards four families nearly $400,000
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle in News, Crime
- A Carroll County jury last week found a local oil company responsible for polluting wells with a gasoline additive and awarded four Finksburg families $395,000 in damages, according to court records and lawyers for the case. The six-person jury in...
- Community college to receive fed funding for solar project
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle in News, Business, Education
- WESTMINSTER -- Carroll Community College has received some funding from the federal government's stimulus package to help pay for a new solar panel project on campus. On April 22, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced the college was one of several agenc...
- Haines says wife's subtle reminder played role in his decision to retire
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle in News
- State Sen. Larry Haines, R-5th District, had been pondering his future in politics for some time when he found a note from his wife, Jane, sitting at his place at the table one morning. The note was a reminder of a promise the five-term Republican sena...
- My phone has 911 programmed ... in case I forget the number
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in Community
- "Everything dies eventually," Doug announced. "Hand over the cell phone." "No," I said, reluctant to part with the only electronic device I knew how to use -- and it only took me two years to learn. Doug tried prying it fr...
- 'Brave in the attempt'
- Published May 2, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle in Community, Sports
- (This story has been corrected.)While the theme from the movie "Chariots of Fire" blared over the public address system, a group of athletes took a lap around the Westminster High School track...
- Rockinberg becomes Mt. Airy's fourth mayor in 15 months
- Published May 4, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in News
- Mount Airy has yet another new mayor while voters also selected two new councilmen.Patrick Rockinberg, 47, beat Councilwoman Wendi Peters, 46 for the mayoral race, 768 to 658 votes. His term lasts four years and he will receive a salary of $8,...
- Cheryl Wheeler to perform at Carroll Arts Center
- Published May 4, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle in News, Entertainment
- WESTMINSTER — Singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler will perform a benefit concert on Friday, May 28 at the Carroll Arts Center with proceeds going toward a renovation project at the Westminster Library.Wheeler, a Timonium native, is known for he...
- Speed cameras overturned in Sykesville
- Published May 4, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle in News, Crime
- SYKESVILLE — Sykesville voters decided to go against the mayor and Town Council's decision to allow speed cameras in town limits.Out of 529 ballots during Tuesday's referendum on Ordinance 271 "Speed Monitoring Systems," 321 people...
- Speed cameras hit a bump in Sykesville
- Published May 7, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle in News
- SYKESVILLE — Sykesville Mayor Mike Miller said this week he's disappointed the town spent $3,000 on an election that, he said, could have been avoided. "Of course I'm disappointed, and a bit surprised," Miller said on May 5, one day after v...
- SHA to work on lanes, intersections for Route 27
- Published May 7, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in News
- MOUNT AIRY — The State Highway Administration will start this week on a year-long improvement project along Route 27 in Mount Airy. The $2.4 million project will last through spring 2011, according to a SHA press release. SHA will extend two ...
- Sykesville Federal eyes town building on Main St.
- Published May 9, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle in News, Business
- SYKESVILLE — Sykesville Federal Savings Association is interested in opening a branch in a renovated and relocated building in downtown Sykesville. Bank officials will meet Wednesday, May 12, at 7 p.m. at the Town House, with business owners a...
- 10 Days 05-09
- Published May 9, 2010 by Carroll Eagle in Events
- Sunday 05-09 Mom's morning A Mother's Day breakfast buffet will be held Sunday, 7 a.m. to noon, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Social Hall, 44 Frederick St., Taneytown. All moms receive a flower. Cost is $6 adults; $3.50 for children 7 to 10; ...
- Mount Airy Middle School and a taxing debate at budget hearing
- Published May 9, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle, Westminster Eagle in News
- WESTMINSTER — The Board of County Commissioners' public hearing on its fiscal 2011 budget contained a couple of "thank yous" and plenty of empty seats in Carroll Community College's Scott Center on May 5. "I'm going to go out on...
- Family's Relay connection is personal, and ongoing
- Published May 9, 2010 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle in News, Community
- Before Lisa Subock's husband, John, passed away from stomach cancer last summer at the age 48, he had asked her what she was going to do after he was gone. Without hesitating, she told him she was going to "keep fighting." Subock's ba...
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