How far can imagination take you? For three Windsor Knolls Middle School (WKMS) seventh graders, the answer is to Globals and back. Duncan Ways, Nicole Simmons and Skylar Robisch—the WKMS Destination Imagination (DI) Team Woah!—took third place at the Destination…
The fifth annual Urbana High School Mini-THON on April 27 brought the total raised this year to $34,624.18 for Four Diamonds at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. A large group of 80 to 100 participants were up and moving from…
Speaking to a gathering of 150 at Urbana High School at the PTSA-sponsored April 24 screening of his documentary, “Heroin’s Grip,” the film’s award-winning producer/director Conrad Weaver explained how his Frederick County film studio came to make a movie about…
Urbana High School sophomore Ella Auderset had all but won her first outdoor track state title May 25, leading the field in the 400-meter dash by “what seemed like a mile,” Hawks girls’ track and field coach CJ Ecalono said.…
A handful of parents living in the new Stone Barn Village near Urbana Elementary at Sugarloaf were informed in early May that their secondary school students will no longer qualify for bus transportation to Urbana Middle School and Urbana High…
Through a large northwest-facing window in their office at The Goddard School, owners John and Jill Pelicano have watched vehicles speed up and down Carriage Hill Drive—and pedestrians, joggers and bicyclists cross Carriage Hill Drive at Carriage Hill Street, the…
During May, Urbana Regional Library hosted local speech pathologist Danielle Wilson, who gave two evening presentations for families looking for resources for developing their children’s communication skills and maintaining those skills over the summer. Wilson timed her talks with Better…
When Windsor Knolls eighth-graders Kyle Sterling and Charlie Bratburd were thinking about service projects they could perform this year, their minds turned to basketball. Their first thought was to assist their Mid-Maryland Basketball coach, Barry Cuozzo, with junior varsity practices.…
I was well into a satisfying Buddha bowl at one of the small tables by the bay window at Hippy Chick Hummus when the owner, Erika Brown, came in to sit down and chat. Baby greens, curried quinoa, chickpeas, red…
Sage Cakery Now Open Nikkie Byrd, an Urbana High 2001 graduate, and her partner, Kurtis Esworthy, opened Sage Cakery at 3401 Urbana Pike next door to Papa John’s Pizza on May 21. The bakery offers cakes, cupcakes, mini-cupcakes, cake pops,…
