Urbana Art & Soul Studio introduces Creative Spaces, a unique shopping experience that allows clients to select pre-arranged gifts as well as make and personalize their own. Similar to a tag sale, the concept involves customized gifts for the holiday…
The Urbana High School Drama Department is making final preparations for their first play of the 2019-2020 school year, “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” The show is a classic comedy written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, described…
Have you heard the latest about our library? We’ve made some very exciting changes to our policies! One of the biggest changes is that as of Oct. 1, we are no longer charging any overdue fines for children’s materials. Children’s…
After work on Urbana’s very own pump track began mid-August of this year, the community has been waiting with bated breath on its completion. The Urbana Skate Park recently announced that after weeks of hard work and heavy-lifting, its long-awaited…
Fall is well underway! We have been enjoying a busy time at our library as the school year begins. We have a full slate of programs over the course of the next month; I hope that you will consider dropping…
The restored and refurbished, 217-year-old Zion Episcopal Church and cemetery in Urbana will be open to visitors on Sunday, Sept. 8 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The opportunity to see inside is rare, as the church is normally open by…
Carolyn Pascal is a relentless champion for social justice. At the age of 12, she began giving countless hours to the Greater Urbana Area Food Bank to fight hunger in our community for three years. When she was 15, she…
Summer is over, and it’s been a great one here at Urbana. We had a remarkably busy summer at the Urbana library, with more than 22,000 people coming through the doors in June alone! Our summer was packed with a…
Aladdin (PG) Though a bit slow at the beginning, perhaps because we know the story so well, “Aladdin” is a movie made for the big screen. When Will Smith (Genie/Mariner) enters, that’s when the fun really begins. Smith is as…
A team of Windsor Knolls Middle School seventh graders—Duncan Ways, Nicole Simmons and Skylar Robisch—competed at the Destination Imagination Maryland State Tournament held at UMBC on March 30. Known as Team Woah! (intentionally misspelled), the trio took first place in…
