Taneytown News

Janet Hull said she and her husband, Denny, already had cleared $100 just a few hours after the Mile Long Yard Sale started Friday morning in the north end of Hagerstown.

Kathryn Leiter 02.JUL.08 The guys of [T]aneytown are back for a third Carroll County area tour since fall 2006.

Police in Queen Anne's County issued a lookout for a missing teenager on Wednesday.

A 19-year-old driver died early Sunday morning when he struck a parked car in Columbia.

The pilot of a single-engine plane escaped largely unscathed after the aircraft crashed yesterday morning at a grass strip in Taneytown.

Graphic designers Thomas and Jane Wynn bought a trendy motor scooter three years ago for weekend joy rides; now they use it for their daily commute from Parkville to their jobs at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in East Baltimore. Jerry Hobbs Jr. and his father ride their new scooters over Carroll County's back roads from Taneytown to their furniture restoration business in Westminster. And restaurant consultant Steve Largent buzzes around the Baltimore area, from the Inner Harbor to Dundalk to Woodlawn, on a Chinese-made scooter while his 15-miles-to-the-gallon Ford pickup sits in the garage. Now he squeezes 100 miles out of a gallon of gas.

Isaac Wilkes is grateful that his church is allowing him to plant a garden. In the wake of high grocery prices, the Will of God Church on Pleasant View Road is letting members use land for planting.

However, the town needs to tie together those efforts, he said. "We have activities, festivals and all sorts of things where it would make good sense to coordinate all these items and groups with one ...

Growing up in a dairy family and showing cows through 4-H, Pam Bell thought going after the Carroll County Dairy Princess title would be a way she could give back to the dairy industry.

Officials considered lowering the city's tax rate, but instead kept it at its current level, adding funding for an additional police officer to the city's force and giving all town employees a 2 percent raise.

Four days a week for the past three years, first-grade teacher Jennifer Walter has spent some extra time with students after school.

A Taneytown woman faces assault and reckless endangerment charges after she allegedly stabbed her husband during an argument.

Myers named top producer, lister, seller Stephanie Myers of Taneytown Long & Foster was named as the top producer, top lister, top seller, with a volume of $1,428,900, and as the agent with the most new ...

Hurray for summer holidays! I hope you all had a great Memorial Day and got a chance to have some summertime cookout favorites over the weekend - perhaps some potato salad and deviled eggs? I went to two ...

Thursday, May 29, 2008 WBAL Radio and Associated Press The town commissioners in Walkersville have voted to designate English as the town's official language.

Walkersville, Md. One small community in Maryland is following suit with a near-by town and the county they reside in to declare English their official language.

Westminster's two newspapers, the American Sentinel and Democratic Advocate, were filled with details about the observance of Decoration Day May 30, 1887.

Officials in both Walkersville and Thurmont planned to discuss this week developing ordinances to make English the official language of both towns.

Family members say a 16-year-old Taneytown boy didn't have a driver's license or a learner's permit when he was killed in a one-vehicle accident early Tuesday morning.

WRM celebrates 40 years of saving lives Mary Scott 23.APR.08 Four years ago, Paul Egolf was homeless, abused drugs and alcohol and was alienated from his family.