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Saturday, May 02, 2009
Sun cuts 27 percent of newsroom by Andy Rosen Daily Record
ANDY ROSEN
Daily Record Business Writer
April 29, 2009
The Baltimore Sun has laid off 61 newsroom employees this week, in a round of job cuts that has claimed some of the longest tenured journalists at the paper.
The Sun Wednesday confirmed the number of layoffs, but did not provide a breakdown of what positions were affected. Officials with the Baltimore-Washington Newspaper Guild said that 40 newsroom members were losing their jobs — one voluntarily. Those reductions were in addition to at least 18 top and mid-level editors, and three others, who were laid off.
The reductions amount to about 27 percent of the Sun’s newsroom staff, according to the guild, hitting several long-tenured editors, photographers, designers and other staff.
“People are devastated,” said Gus Sentementes, a guild mobilizer in the newsroom and a general assignment reporter, who said these were some of the most severe reductions in memory. “We are changing the way we do our work.” Sentementes will remain on staff, he said.
The magnitude of the reductions left many wondering whether they’d be able to recognize the Sun in coming days and months.
Publisher Timothy E. Ryan and Editor J. Montgomery Cook did not respond to calls seeking comment Wednesday. Spokeswoman Renee Mutchnik confirmed that the paper had informed the guild of layoffs.
[…]
The Sun is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co., which filed for bankruptcy in December.
[…]
People who were in the newsroom Wednesday described an emotional scene, with staff members being called into offices to get the news that their jobs were gone.
Bill Wachsberger, a designer who was laid off Wednesday, said staff members had widely anticipated the job reductions and the atmosphere was tense when he arrived around 1:45 p.m. At 2 p.m., management began informing employees.
“You could hear a pin drop in the newsroom,” he said.
[…]
Eileen Canzian, a metro desk editor who was laid off Tuesday, said she was glad to have spent 30 years at the Sun, but wonders what it will look like in the future. She said the cuts severely reduced the number of editors on the metro desk.
“When I realized that they felt that they didn’t need my skills anymore, I thought, ‘Well, the paper’s in a new place, and that is a very sad place,’” Canzian said. “I feel even worse for the young people who didn’t get to spend their lives doing this.”
The Baltimore Sun Media Group has also made cuts in the past few weeks to many of the newspapers it owns throughout Central Maryland in its Patuxent Publishing chain. Last week, the Northeast Booster in Perry Hall and the Northeast Reporter in Parkville said they would combine and publish as a monthly paper. Both outlets had been weeklies. The Owings Mills Times and the North County News in Baltimore County will shift to monthly production as well.
The company has also stop publishing the Eldersburg Eagle in Carroll County, which came out on Wednesdays, and will combine some of its elements into the Sunday Carroll Eagle.
[…]
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Recent columns in Explore Carroll by Kevin Dayhoff
Story of Carroll County today reads like a text book of success
Published March 11, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
One Westminster family's friend, and enemy, during the Civil War
Published March 6, 2009 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
Sheryl gives advice on banking and toilet paper, one square at a time
Published March 4, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
In the end, this is one of those messy pesky problems when we may need more than two or three squares.
In the 1800s, Parke was a giant in politics and the print media
Published February 27, 2009 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
In the 1920s, somebody was going to go hungry
Published February 25, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
20090313 SDOSM Recent columns in Explore Carroll by Kevin Dayhoff
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
A Tomato Convocation in Westminster By Bob Allen
I’m a big fan of old varieties of plants and I’m Patuxent writer Bob Allen’s biggest fan – although I remain jealous over the huge novella word limits he is given by our editor, but that is the stuff of another column. On second thought, maybe not.
A Tomato Convocation in Westminster
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Heirlooms are ripe for celebration By Bob Allen ballen@patuxent.com
Posted 8/24/08
The mouthwatering magic and savory mystique of heirloom tomatoes was celebrated in Carroll County last week at a lively, tomato-inspired confabulation of food, fun and horticultural education and tomato lore.
If there had been a gaudy neon marquee advertising the Carroll County Master Gardeners' annual Heirloom Tomato Festival, it might have flashed:
"TOMATOES! TOMATOES!
NOTHING BUT...
HEIRLOOM! HEIRLOOM!
ALL THE TIME!"
Held at the Saturday, Aug. 16, Carroll County Farmers Market, the sixth annual festival was a spirited gathering of tomatoes and the people who love them, grow them, cook with them, talk about them and celebrate their merits.
But these were not just any tomatoes on parade.
In fact, the mere mention of store-bought hybrids (often distinguished by bland taste, pallid complexion and cardboard-like pulpiness) was met by good-natured disdain.
To most master gardeners, the only kind of tomato worthy of salt, vinegar, garlic, basil, olive oil and salad dressing is a genuine, home-grown heirloom.
Indeed, heirlooms are the true hall of famers of the tomato world.
[…]
An heirloom is a pure-bred tomato that has been established and kept true to its specific variety, with its gene pool unsullied by hybridization for least 50 years.
The master gardeners on hand at the Heirloom Tomato Festival provided fresh, juicy samples of the colorful-looking and even more colorfully named array of heirlooms from their back yard and side lot tomato patches -- Goliaths, Bullhearts, Hillbillies, Blackrims, Siberians, German Greens, German Johnsons, Aunt Rubies, Belgian Pinks, Brandywines, Polish Linguisas and a host of others.
[…]
All proceeds went to a special agriculture education scholarship fund set up by Carroll County Master Gardeners.
Maryanne Turner, president of Carroll County Master Gardeners, the local chapter of the state-wide volunteer training program coordinated by the University of Maryland Cooperative Extension, was doling out bite-sized samples of her green tomato pie, which were gobbled nearly as quickly as she could scoop them into little paper cups and put them on the counter.
[…]
For more on the Master Gardeners program, or to learn how to get a copy of the tomato recipe booklet, call Steve Allgeier at the Carroll County Extension Office at 410-386-2760.
You can read the rest of Mr. Allen’s mouthwatering novella, complete with recipes, here: A Tomato Convocation in Westminster
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20080824 A Tomato Convocation in Westminster By Bob Allen
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Kevin Dayhoff Sunday Carroll Eagle and Westminster Eagle columns and articles from June 25, 2008 through August 3, 2008
Kevin Dayhoff Sunday Carroll Eagle and Westminster Eagle columns and articles from June 25, 2008 through August 3, 2008
August 3, 2008
Fire and water have been volatile mix in Sykesville
Published August 3, 2008 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
It was 85 years ago, in the late afternoon of Monday, July 30, 1923, that an historic and terrible rainstorm hit Sykesville and other areas...
Destructive behavior from those contentious combines
Published July 30, 2008 by Westminster Eagle
On Saturday evening, the air was hot, thick and muggy, flavored with anticipation and seasoned with a hint of petroleum fumes. More than 5,000 fans...
Westminster's sacred places are shrines of community life
Published July 25, 2008 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
Since this is a Sunday column, I do hope it's fitting to talk about sacred places. Not necessarily houses of worship, mind you, though those are...
Viva la bicyclette de Carroll
Published July 23, 2008 by Westminster Eagle
Today, as you are reading this, the 95th Tour de France is in Stage 17. This year's race began on July 5. After 23 days,...
Memories from City Hall and e-mail from the great beyond
Published July 20, 2008 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
Westminster purchased the property for its City Hall, on Emerald Hill Lane, from the estate of George W. Albaugh in September 1939 for the grand...
Appreciating Tony Snow's passion for life
Published July 16, 2008 by Westminster Eagle
Saturday, July 12, former White House press secretary Tony Snow, 53, died of cancer. I certainly never knew him, yet after following his too-short career for...
Westminster's Civil War role didn't end at Corbit's Charge
Published July 13, 2008 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
The last several weeks have been busy in Carroll County, and one of the busiest was during the June 27-29 events surrounding the commemoration of...
Smith & Reifsnider was too hot to handle in July 1938
Published July 9, 2008 by Westminster Eagle
Seventy years ago, Carroll County was reeling from the aftermath of fireworks of an unwelcome variety -- one of the biggest fires in the county's...
What a concept: sharing the wealth and pain of tax increases
Published July 6, 2008 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
"Gov. (William Preston) Lane does not like taxes ... but as long as you have colleges to take your money, ... you are to have...
The merry marry month of June
Published July 2, 2008 by Westminster Eagle
As we say goodbye to the month of June, bachelors can breathe a sigh of relief that they've survived what has historically been the traditional...
Years ago, trip to the beach required help from a little ferry
Published June 29, 2008 by Sunday Carroll Eagle
EAGLE ARCHIVE For many Carroll County residents, summertime means an opportunity to make an annual family trek to Ocean City, Md. Some of my fondest childhood memories...
Westminster's past included days of swine and meters
Published June 25, 2008 by Westminster Eagle
There have been many critter problems in the history of Westminster, but none seems to have caused as much a stir as what to do...
20080803 Kevin Dayhoff Sunday Carroll Eagle and Westminster Eagle columns and articles from June 25, 2008 through August 3, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
20080518 Sunday Carroll Eagle running chron as of May 18 2008
Alcohol, prohibition, mysterious women and the roaring '20s
05/16/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
Prohibition became the law of the land after the 18th Amendment went into effect on Jan. 16, 1920, but Carroll Countians had already voted to outlaw the sale of alcohol six years earlier in 1914.
Throughout the roaring '20s, until prohibition was repealed on Dec. 5, 1933, by the 21st Amendment, many legendary accounts of stills, moonshiners, speakeasies and enforcement raids became a part of a folklore and story-telling tradition in the county.
If only half of the stories are true,
A May 18, 1923, newspaper account stirred the kettle about one such event -- a May 5 raid on the North Branch Hotel by prohibition agents.
Read the entire column here: Alcohol, prohibition, mysterious women and the roaring '20s
Roads, reservoirs, property rights and four-letter words
05/09/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
The state of the roads has always been a hot topic in
History frequently mentions street projects. In the
Nearly 40 years later, on April 27, 1927, an emergency bill was passed in the General Assembly that authorized
Alas, then-Gov. Albert C. Ritchie vetoed it.
(The year of 1927 was not a good one for
Speaking of roads, a reader's question asked why there are so many sharp curves on old county roads?
The answer is: In days gone-by, roads went in between and around property lines. Agricultural fields and property lines were more important than straightening out roads and using eminent domain -- the means by which government takes land for public projects -- was out of the question.
And that leads to another question posed in the past several months, asking if
Eminent domain is a four-letter word in Carroll. Property rights have always been a sacred cow in
Panic, depression, recession ... and Dick Cheney in a rabbit suit
05/02/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
This is the time of the year when a young man's fancy turns to the budget process of
In reading through historical economic accounts (which beats reading the most recent fiscal accounts, by the way) budget processes have never been easy.
The economy dominates the news these days; especially the number of people losing their homes to foreclosure.
Read the entire column here: Panic, depression, recession ... and Dick Cheney in a rabbit suit
Westminster came of age by following railroad tracks
04/21/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
One of my fondest memories of growing up in
The railroad is interwoven throughout much of the fabric of
Joseph... [Read full story]
Fire in
04/13/2008 by
King’s sad anniversary reminds us of Carroll’s own history
04/06/2008 by
Parades, impact fees, mail service ... and Dwight Dingle in a bathtub?
04/02/08 by
EAGLE ARCHIVE
Time for a little spring-cleaning, in which we'll catch up with answering some readers' questions.
Recently I was asked about Easter parades in
Rolling out a few good eggs, and our Easter Sunday best
03/26/08 by
EAGLE ARCHIVE
Happy Easter. Yes it's not quite warm outside, although warmer weather should be around the corner. And yes, it seems like Christmas was just yesterday.
We all have favorite Easter memories. For those of us who grew up in a church, Easter marked the opportunity to wear our "Easter Sunday best," i.e. new clothes.
Palm Sunday 1942 was a time of high snow and higher anxiety
03/14/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
Many people have been commenting about how early Easter is this year. In fact, the last time Easter was as early as March 23 was 1913.
But a later Easter doesn't ensure good weather for Holy Week. I wonder how many readers remember the Palm Sunday blizzard of 1942. It was the fifth worse snowstorm in
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20080309 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
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Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
Sunday Carroll Eagle March 9, 2008 by
I cannot find my March 9th, 2008 Sunday Carroll Eagle column on the Westminster Eagle web site.
Pasted below, please find the column as it was written. It is my understanding that the column was altered for publication…
Ever since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, many of us has felt that the best management approach to solid waste was source reduction and recycling. It would take 18 long years to get the Maryland Recycling Act passed in 1988. That legislation required a recycling rate of 20 percent.
Twenty years later, getting the recycling rate increased is still illusive. In 1998, on the 10-year anniversary of the law, the
Later in the article, the $250 million cost of recycling 2.5 million tons was compared to the $83 million it would’ve cost to landfill it instead. The rest of the article went downhill from there.
Those of us who are opposed to landfilling were less than pleased. Four decades after the first Earth Day, the recycling rate in
20080309 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
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Traffic always made us see red
Traffic always made us see red
02/29/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE By
The concern over traffic congestion, safety and speeding tend to surface with every discussion of growth and quality of life in
Perhaps the first mention of an effort to address the problem of speeding in our county came on or about June 20, 1839. According to a history of the Westminster Police Department, it was then that a speeding ordinance was passed stating:
"No person shall run or drive through the town of
The life, and the lasting local influence, of Robert Moton
02/01/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
Construction continues these days at the site of the 28,000-square-foot former
After approximately $2.3 million in renovations, the Carroll County Board of Elections, Carroll Department of Recreation and Parks and Change Inc., a nonprofit that works with the developmentally disabled, are slated to move their offices there.
Questions about the old school building are posed to me from time to time, but the question I'm asked most frequently, especially from younger folks who are new to
For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
January 13, 2008 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
20080113 Westminster Municipal Band: For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
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For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
01/11/08 by Kevin E. Dayhoff
EAGLE ARCHIVE
Below please find the long – unedited version of the column…
Just before the holidays got into full swing, I had the pleasure of attending the Westminster Municipal Band’s end of the year Christmas party and annual meeting.
It is certainly not a very well kept secret that this former Westminster Mayor and his family are madly in love with the Westminster Municipal Band. And it's not just because I'm a washed-up trumpet player.
Usually when one thinks of the Westminster Municipal Band, visions of “Mom, Country, and Apple Pie” come to mind.
The purpose of leadership today is to build community. Certainly one of the chief builders of our community has been the Westminster Municipal Band.
However, the rich history of the band includes being part of rapid deployment force to hotspots around the globe, a machine gun section, and a rumored reputation of being a heavy metal grudge-garage band. Who knew?
If a Greek mythologist were to write the history of the Westminster Municipal Band, they would write the Band's Mother is the history and tradition of the Westminster Community and the Father is the 29th Division National Guard Regimental Band. That Greek mythologist would also want to write that the band's ancestral home is
The roots of the present Westminster Municipal Band are found in 1920, but “there are records of a Westminster Band dating back as far as 1860,” according to the band’s director, Sandy Miller, in a July 2004 interview.
However, to the best of our knowledge, it was 1893 when it was first incorporated as the Westminster City Band of Carroll County.
It was around this time that Company H First Infantry Maryland National Guard was organized in Frizzleburg in 1898. This unit later evolved into the famous 29th Division of the Maryland National Guard. Part of the Westminster Municipal Band's lineage can be traced back to the First Maryland Infantry Band consisting of the Westminster Units of the Maryland National Guard.
20080113 Westminster Municipal Band: For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
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Shedding a little light on early Christmas tree decorations
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Christmas reminds us of worry, and glory, of downtown business
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20071104 The Sunday Carroll Eagle column of October 28 2007
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Gist worried about being forgotten but not quite gone
The Sunday Carroll Eagle column of October 28 2007
Below please find my October 28th, 2007 column and it was submitted.
Sunday Eagle
Ghost Stories in
October 28th, 2007 by
Of the horror stories of Carroll’s yesteryear, none was greater than the very real fear of being buried alive. In today’s world, society’s collective faith in the modern advances of the medical arts has gone a long way in alleviating the fear of being buried alive; a fear which was rampant in the 1800s.
A few years ago, local historian Jay Graybeal retold an account by Ruth Gist Pickens about the fear of being buried alive held by one of
It seems that Colonel Gist maintained a coffin in a portion of his bedroom for the last years of his life; “into which he would have his personal servant lay him out and then call the family to comment on his appearance. Each time he would ask them to promise not to bury him until the third day after his death.”
20071104 The Sunday Carroll Eagle column of October 28 2007
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When it comes to beets, timing is everything
IN THE GARDEN WITH MR. BEE
I haven't grown beets for a while. So when I mentioned to Judy, my wife, that I'd learned of a variety -- "Lutz Green Leaf" -- that remains tender as it grows larger, she suggested that I sow some seeds right away.
Timing is important, you see, especially when it comes... [Read full story]
They come from opposite ends of the county and their sports are as different as night and day, but Tyler Mullen of
And without their leadership and... [Read full story]
Stream is proving ground for healthy water
On a chilly late March morning, Ted Hogan, an environmental scientist with Hunt Valley-based URS Corp., threads his way through briar patches, bogs, locust groves and back yards as he follows a meandering stream that runs through several Eldersburg subdivisions.
Now and then, Hogan, a cont... [Read full story]
Spring is a great time to get kids reacquainted with outdoor Carroll
MOM ON A MISSION
It's taken some time, but spring appears to finally be arriving. The days are getting warmer, my weeping cherry is turning into a beautiful fountain of pink and the birds are flocking to our feeders.
Hearing the kids' faint voices outside on the swing set while I'm making dinner...
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New Windsor agency helps distribute life-saving device
I wanted to teach about 911, but instead I dialed a wrong number
For pages, Annapolis is an open book
Rolling out a few good eggs, and our Easter Sunday best
Local acts soar to Top 10 in Carroll's 'Idol' competition
Fighting the urge for an Easter bonnet and all the thrills upon it
Captain Dan rides on the seafood wave
'Sitting' pretty means having faith in who's watching the kids
Palm Sunday 1942 was a time of high snow and higher anxiety
Asking 'why' should come before offering 'what I think'
Traffic always made us see red
Toy show, auction connects with childhood memories
Our 'cherry-ice' trees offer a delicious winter scene
Museum unveils Taylor's 'wild' vision
Birthday gifts? Tread lightly ... in high heels and boxing gloves
A turtle's pace, but a day of reckoning for Solomon
To raise healthier kids, should we get more physical in school?
Researching a few 'first class' experiences in Carroll County
Maggie's continues to grow on Westminster
Web series helps teens connect to the world
The life, and the lasting local influence, of Robert Moton
Sportsman's Hall ... and airplane hangar
Skating history, from party 'crashing' to fitness
Mason bees buzz in as honeybees buzz out
Coming clean to ease pain of cancer
We can't understand the kids, but in this case it's a good thing
20080518 Sunday Carroll Eagle running chron as of May 18 2008
20080516 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: Alcohol, prohibition, mysterious women and the roaring '20s by Kevin Dayhoff
05/16/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
Prohibition became the law of the land after the 18th Amendment went into effect on Jan. 16, 1920, but Carroll Countians had already voted to outlaw the sale of alcohol six years earlier in 1914.
Throughout the roaring '20s, until prohibition was repealed on Dec. 5, 1933, by the 21st Amendment, many legendary accounts of stills, moonshiners, speakeasies and enforcement raids became a part of a folklore and story-telling tradition in the county.
If only half of the stories are true,
A May 18, 1923, newspaper account stirred the kettle about one such event -- a May 5 raid on the North Branch Hotel by prohibition agents.
As a result, the paper reported: "More than 300 signatures were attached to a petition filed Tuesday in the office of Amos W. W. Woodcock, United States District Attorney, asking for the closing of the North Branch Hotel, at North Branch, on the border of Baltimore and Carroll counties."
Even before that, on Dec. 15, 1922, the old Democratic Advocate railed about the "law of unintended consequences" in an editorial titled, "Does Prohibition Prohibit?"
It says, "The United States has now been subject to constitutional prohibition for nearly three years. During that time there has been more drunkenness, more deaths from alcoholism, more theft, more robbery, more murders and other heinous crimes, than ever transposed in the history of the
"Young men and boys who were never seen at a saloon during the old wet regime now get gloriously hilarious on home brew home-made wines and last, but not least, hard cider.' "
Certainly Carroll Countians did not find these events "gloriously hilarious" and they were in such an uproar over concerns about lawlessness, crime and enforcement of prohibition that a "Law and Order League for
An Aug. 6, 1926, newspaper account reported the "executive committee of the Law and Order League for
"Mr. George Mather, president of the organization, presided. Rev. E. R. Spencer, pastor of the M. E. Church, in
High spirits, indeed
From prayer and booze we get to bravery and last week's Sunday Carroll Eagle trivia question, which asked: Who was the Confederate cavalry commander who was delayed on his way to the Battle of Gettysburg by "Corbit's Charge" as his unit came through
Many folks got it right.
Elaine and Bob Breeding, Herb Howard, Matt Candland, Robbie Foster, Ruth Anderson and Mike Devine all knew that it was Major General, CSA, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, who died at the age of 31 on May 12, 1864.
His wife, Flora, "wore the black of mourning for the remaining 49 years of her life," according to Civil War historian Derek Smith.
This week's winner of the coveted Sunday Carroll Eagle mug is none other than Matt Candland, who also happens to be town administrator for Sykesville.
He may very well be one of the few folks in
For this week's trivia question, let's stick with storytelling and booze.
Who was the
I have often wondered just how much the newspaper accounts of the distillery raids, bootleggers, robberies, and mayhem in
Just imagine Sam Spade roaming around
At any rate, this author maintained a torrid romance with Lillian Hellman for 30 years until his death in 1961.
Can one imagine this writer and Ms. Hellman sitting at the counter at Baugher's for lunch as they visited for a day in the country? I certainly can.
If you know who this famous author is, drop me a line at kdayhoff@carr.org, and I might just pull your name for the coffee mug. And please put Sunday Carroll Eagle in the subject line. Thanks.
When not reading old detective novels,
20080516 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: Alcohol, prohibition, mysterious women and the roaring '20s by
Sunday, April 27, 2008
20080426 The Sunday Carroll Eagle
Sunday Carroll Eagle on "Soundtrack"
Saturday, April 26
Westminster came of age by following railroad tracks
04/21/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
One of my fondest memories of growing up in
The railroad is interwoven throughout much of the fabric of
Joseph... [Read full story]
Fire in
04/13/2008 by
King’s sad anniversary reminds us of Carroll’s own history
04/06/2008 by
Parades, impact fees, mail service ... and Dwight Dingle in a bathtub?
04/02/08 by
EAGLE ARCHIVE
Time for a little spring-cleaning, in which we'll catch up with answering some readers' questions.
Recently I was asked about Easter parades in
Rolling out a few good eggs, and our Easter Sunday best
03/26/08 by
EAGLE ARCHIVE
Happy Easter. Yes it's not quite warm outside, although warmer weather should be around the corner. And yes, it seems like Christmas was just yesterday.
We all have favorite Easter memories. For those of us who grew up in a church, Easter marked the opportunity to wear our "Easter Sunday best," i.e. new clothes.
Palm Sunday 1942 was a time of high snow and higher anxiety
03/14/08 by
EAGLE ARCHIVE
Many people have been commenting about how early Easter is this year. In fact, the last time Easter was as early as March 23 was 1913.
But a later Easter doesn't ensure good weather for Holy Week. I wonder how many readers remember the Palm Sunday blizzard of 1942. It was the fifth worse snowstorm in
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/03/20080316-carroll-sunday-eagle-palm.html
20080309 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
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Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
Sunday Carroll Eagle March 9, 2008 by
I cannot find my March 9th, 2008 Sunday Carroll Eagle column on the Westminster Eagle web site.
Pasted below, please find the column as it was written. It is my understanding that the column was altered for publication…
Ever since the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, many of us has felt that the best management approach to solid waste was source reduction and recycling. It would take 18 long years to get the Maryland Recycling Act passed in 1988. That legislation required a recycling rate of 20 percent.
Twenty years later, getting the recycling rate increased is still illusive. In 1998, on the 10-year anniversary of the law, the
Later in the article, the $250 million cost of recycling 2.5 million tons was compared to the $83 million it would’ve cost to landfill it instead. The rest of the article went downhill from there.
Those of us who are opposed to landfilling were less than pleased. Four decades after the first Earth Day, the recycling rate in
20080309 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2008/03/20080309-sunday-carroll-eagle-history.html
Traffic always made us see red
Traffic always made us see red
02/29/08 By
EAGLE ARCHIVE
The concern over traffic congestion, safety and speeding tend to surface with every discussion of growth and quality of life in
Perhaps the first mention of an effort to address the problem of speeding in our county came on or about June 20, 1839. According to a history of the Westminster Police Department, it was then that a speeding ordinance was passed stating:
"No person shall run or drive through the town of
The life, and the lasting local influence, of Robert Moton
02/01/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
Construction continues these days at the site of the 28,000-square-foot former
After approximately $2.3 million in renovations, the Carroll County Board of Elections, Carroll Department of Recreation and Parks and Change Inc., a nonprofit that works with the developmentally disabled, are slated to move their offices there.
Questions about the old school building are posed to me from time to time, but the question I'm asked most frequently, especially from younger folks who are new to
For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
January 13, 2008 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
20080113 Westminster Municipal Band: For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
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For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
01/11/08 by Kevin E. Dayhoff
EAGLE ARCHIVE
Below please find the long – unedited version of the column…
Just before the holidays got into full swing, I had the pleasure of attending the Westminster Municipal Band’s end of the year Christmas party and annual meeting.
It is certainly not a very well kept secret that this former Westminster Mayor and his family are madly in love with the
Usually when one thinks of the Westminster Municipal Band, visions of “Mom, Country, and Apple Pie” come to mind.
The purpose of leadership today is to build community. Certainly one of the chief builders of our community has been the Westminster Municipal Band.
However, the rich history of the band includes being part of rapid deployment force to hotspots around the globe, a machine gun section, and a rumored reputation of being a heavy metal grudge-garage band. Who knew?
If a Greek mythologist were to write the history of the Westminster Municipal Band, they would write the Band's Mother is the history and tradition of the Westminster Community and the Father is the 29th Division National Guard Regimental Band. That Greek mythologist would also want to write that the band's ancestral home is
The roots of the present Westminster Municipal Band are found in 1920, but “there are records of a Westminster Band dating back as far as 1860,” according to the band’s director, Sandy Miller, in a July 2004 interview.
However, to the best of our knowledge, it was 1893 when it was first incorporated as the Westminster City Band of Carroll County.
It was around this time that Company H First Infantry Maryland National Guard was organized in Frizzleburg in 1898. This unit later evolved into the famous 29th Division of the Maryland National Guard. Part of the Westminster Municipal Band's lineage can be traced back to the First Maryland Infantry Band consisting of the Westminster Units of the Maryland National Guard.
20080113 Westminster Municipal Band: For 115 years, Westminster's band of brothers ... and sisters
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Shedding a little light on early Christmas tree decorations
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Christmas reminds us of worry, and glory, of downtown business
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20071104 The Sunday Carroll Eagle column of October 28 2007
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Gist worried about being forgotten but not quite gone
The Sunday Carroll Eagle column of October 28 2007
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Of the horror stories of Carroll’s yesteryear, none was greater than the very real fear of being buried alive. In today’s world, society’s collective faith in the modern advances of the medical arts has gone a long way in alleviating the fear of being buried alive; a fear which was rampant in the 1800s.
A few years ago, local historian Jay Graybeal retold an account by Ruth Gist Pickens about the fear of being buried alive held by one of
It seems that Colonel Gist maintained a coffin in a portion of his bedroom for the last years of his life; “into which he would have his personal servant lay him out and then call the family to comment on his appearance. Each time he would ask them to promise not to bury him until the third day after his death.”
20071104 The Sunday Carroll Eagle column of October 28 2007
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