Urbana High School junior Dabitha Taylor has been named a 2019 recipient of a Student Peace Award of Frederick County. The award honors students who have aimed to make the world a better place by promoting the values of peacemaking,…
Tired of heading to MoCo or DC every time you want to get your groove on? Now you can learn to dance—or just practice your moves—every other Saturday at The Greene Turtle in Urbana. La Mezcla Entertainment began bi-weekly Latin…
Teens who train at Urbana Dance Studio are making their mark in the wider world. In March, three dance team members performed in the Washington National Opera’s production of French composer Charles Gounod’s opera “Faust” at the Kennedy Center for…
For its 13th season, the Urbana Library Farmers’ Market is trying something new—opening before Mother’s Day so patrons can purchase locally grown flowers, baked goods, bath and beauty products and one-of-a-kind gifts from local artists. “We keep growing and evolving,”…
It’s been a real Urbana effort. Urbana High senior Emily Mogel organized the first-ever Frederick Walk to Cure Arthritis, planned for May 18, 10:30 a.m. in Baker Park, as part of her internship with the Arthritis Foundation in Rockville. Mogel,…
A growing group of dedicated volunteers are spending their waking hours building bunkbeds so that kids who need them may sleep. The Frederick County chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP) was launched in October 2018 by Lou Stavely, an …
We typically think of black bears occupying the Blue Ridge Corridor, that is, the ranges west of Sugarloaf Mountain. And even though I have never seen a black bear on Sugarloaf, I have seen bear scat, which, to me, is…
We are now entering tick season … or so we think. Unlike many other parasites, ticks are not killed by freezing temperatures. They are not active unless the temperatures are above freezing. We rarely have prolonged periods of freezing temperatures…
A 125-room hotel and nearly 31,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space just moved another step closer toward reality. The Frederick County Planning Commission gave site plan approval during a mid-March meeting to Natelli Communities to build the Urbana…
Frederick County Public Schools and consultant Matthew Cropper, president of Cropper GIS, rolled out three proposed scenarios for Linganore-Oakdale-Urbana redistricting at a community meeting held March 19 at Urbana High School. The school system is asking the community to review…
