Local News - Carroll County Times

TANEYTOWN — Taneytown’s Web site will undergo a makeover next month. Mayor James L. McCarron Jr. said the Web site was a sore spot for him and said one of the first things he did when he became mayor in May 2007 was to organize a focus group to revamp the site.

A Westminster man is being held in the Carroll County Detention Center on $200,000 bail after allegedly assaulting police officers who tried to arrest him after he and several others reportedly burst into a Westminster apartment Wednesday night and threatened two male occupants with a gun and a baseball bat.

Parishioners of Bixlers United Methodist Church in Westminster are expecting to get a lesson in the church’s history when its cornerstone is cut Sunday and the contents of a small copper box inside are revealed.

ELDERSBURG — Brian Fleming is not interested in history, but he found he could work at his own pace while retaking world history online during the summer.

The entertainment and enjoyment of the Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair may be starting for visitors today, but 4-H youths and their families have been working for weeks to get the fair ready.

Times staff writer Erica Kritt spent Friday morning at Ravens training camp rallying the crowd and hoping to get a hug from her hero, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis.

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Kyle Boller, his hair disheveled and his face covered with stubble, walked over to Nicholas Karavas, 8, and Jacob Silkworth, 5.

The 2008 Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair may not officially begin until Saturday, but a tractor pull tonight will kick off a host of tractor and machinery-related events scheduled during the first weekend of the fair.

Because of an editorial assistant's error, the date of the "Join the Speed Stacking Generation!" program at Eldersburg library was incorrect in the Carroll Planner on page C8 Sunday. The program will be held Monday.

The New Windsor Community Action Project, or NEWCAP, is hosting a public forum at 7:30 tonight for people to learn more about Lehigh Cement Co.’s plans to transport rock from the New Windsor quarry to the Union Bridge plant.

Sentencing is scheduled for September for a Sykes-ville man police found growing marijuana in his home within a school zone.

A local expert says that although the federal minimum wage will rise to $6.55 per hour today, it is still insufficient to survive on. The federal rate was $5.85 per hour, but Maryland won’t fully be affected by the 70-cent increase because the state’s rate was set at $6.15 per hour.

A building on the Springfield Hospital campus in Sykesville will be undergoing renovations later this summer in order to house approximately 12 people from the Rosewood Center in Owings Mills.

A Westminster man could spend up to 18 months at the Carroll County Detention Center for his role in a robbery in a dorm room at McDaniel College in November.

SYKESVILLE -- Everyone’s seen it. Some have probably caused it. A deer carcass on the side of a winding country road. Roadkill. The Maryland State Highway Administration picks up an average of 550 deer carcasses off Carroll County roads each year.

DYLAN SLAGLE/ STAFF PHOTO Police investigate the scene of an accident near the intersection of Md. 140 and Hughes Shop Road in Westminster Tuesday. A motorcyclist was injured in the collision, which occurred shortly before 10 p.m.

The Red Cross is out for blood. The Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Blood Services Region is suffering a severe blood shortage, according to Katie McGuire, spokeswoman for GC&P Blood Services Region.

Hampstead property owners will have a chance this evening to weigh in on several zoning recommendations that could affect how they can develop their land.

Two drivers involved in a collision Tuesday at the intersection of Md. 97 and Old Hanover Road were both in stable condition at area hospitals Tuesday evening.