The Carroll County Health Department is now offering appointment only, drive-thru COVID-19 testing at the Agricultural Center in Westminster, allowing them to accommodate more residents in a day.
The water tower that looms above McDaniel College’s campus in the heart of Westminster is getting a facelift this week, complete with a new paint job and fresh logos this week.
Emergency personnel from the Westminster fire and police departments and the Reese & Community Fire Company worked to extricate a person from a vehicle at the intersection of Md. Route 31 and Uniontown Road in Westminster following a crash shortly before noon Tuesday.
A custom pumper truck retired from service at Reese & Community Volunteer Fire Company in Westminster will soon be on its way to Fulton, Kentucky, to help a station destroyed in recent tornados there.
Keith Parrish, 54, of Sykesville received his best Christmas present ever this year. At 7:20 a.m., on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope blasted off into space after years of delay. Parrish, the telescope’s commissioning manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said now the telescope will be able to carry out its purpose to help scientists around the world learn how the universe began.