The Frederick Chapter of Maryland Writers’ Association (MWA) celebrated its first year as an official chapter on Jan. 26. The chapter began with 12 members and has grown to approximately 78 members. Meetings are held on the third Saturday of…
Category: Community
Editor’s Note: Remembering Martin Schipper
Years ago, I read a Q&A in Oprah Magazine that stayed with me. Maria Shriver asked poet Mary Oliver about losing her life partner to cancer. Oliver said, “I had decided I would do one of two things when she…
No Shelf Required: Your Public Library
February is the month for love, and we love our library! This month I’d like to point out a couple of resources that you may enjoy. If you love movies but feel like you’ve seen everything popular out there, check…
Mr. Urbana, Crowning Charity in the Community
Contestants went head-to-head in the 17th Annual Mr. Urbana competition on Dec. 5. This male pageant raises money for the Rock Creek School, which provides special education programs for students ages 3 to 21 with cognitive disabilities, many of whom…
Attorney Samantha Manganaro AIOPIA’s Best for Personal Injury Law
Father-daughter duo Steven Campen and Samantha (Sami) Manganaro are Urbana attorneys with a new, “out of the box” approach to personal injury law. “We’re taking a very different approach to value cases,” Manganaro said. Instead of the multiples of medical…
Around Town
WKMS Band Closes Concert by iPhone Light Eighth graders in The Alto Vera Saxophone Quintet gave a solo performance of “Frosty the Snowman” during the Windsor Knolls Middle School Band 2019 Winter Concert. The audience was standing room only as…
Scholarship Competition Crowns Four New Titleholders
Before Nov. 16, Laura Dineen, Kate Wills and Ryleigh Jackson had never competed in a scholarship competition before. Once the evening was over, all three—along with Brooke Nixon—walked out of the Jack B. Kussmaul Theater on the Frederick Community College…
Girl Scouts Celebrate Founder’s Birthday
The Girl Scouts of Cadette Troop 81265 hosted the Juliette Gordon Low birthday celebration on Nov. 1. Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts USA in 1912. Each year around Low’s birthday, which falls on Halloween, a local teen Girl…
Digging the New South County Family YMCA
The YMCA of Frederick County held a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, Nov. 18 to commemorate construction start on the new South County Family YMCA in Urbana. The site is located between Urbana Middle and Urbana High schools on Md. 80…
Local Woodworker Joins National Movement Honoring First Responders
National First Responders Day was Oct. 28. Local woodworker Kristen Richards participated in a nationwide challenge called Makers Never Forget that honors first responders. “A maker in Illinois had the idea to gather as many woodworkers,” said Richards, “to make…