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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
More than 170 runners, walkers, volunteers and sponsors joined the fight to end hunger in Malawi at the second annual Educate Girls Superhero 5K with 1K Fun Run at Urbana District Park on Saturday, Nov. 9. The event is the…
The Urbana Latino Association hosted an outdoor celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday, Oct. 5 beneath beautiful blue skies. As Latin band Grupo Quimboa played, people of all ages moved on the dance floor set in the middle…
Thomas Nikirk describes himself as a “hometown Frederick boy.” On Nov. 10, the Vietnam veteran will be sharing “The Vietnam Experience in Photographs” at the Urbana Library at 1 p.m. Nikirk graduated from Frederick High School in 1964 and headed…
