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April had lots of activities popping up all around Carroll County in our schools. Students from all around the county have been preparing for months for the opportunity to show off their memory skills. Whether it was remember book characters or becoming a character, book battles and drama productions took center stage.
On Saturday morning, Senator Justin Ready and the entire Carroll delegation briefed County Republicans on the extreme legislative session that wrapped up on April 10th, during a breakfast hosted by Republican Central Committee Chair Joe Leeman at the Winfield Fire Hall in Sykesville.
On Thursday, Carroll’s Board of County Commissioners conversed at length about how the County may handle the local zoning aspect of a new State law mandating that recreational cannabis dispensaries and groweries be allowed to operate in all parts of the state, even in localities where residents don’t want it.
With three seats on the Westminster Common Council up for grabs come election day on May 9th, three incumbent Council Members seeking reelection are being positioned as something of a slate to box out a fourth candidate hoping to pluck one of the three seats for himself.
In October, McDaniel announced that their thirty-six member Board of Trustees voted unanimously to endorse the college’s five year strategic plan that holistically integrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ), into the fabric of the small liberal arts college that sits high atop a hill overlooking historic Westminster.
Last week, after a transgender person murdered six people including three 9-year-olds at a Presbyterian school and church in Nashville, the Director of Equity and Inclusion at the prestigious McDonogh School in Owings Mills, reacted by sending an email to all upper school students where she expresses concern that a resulting increase in societal transphobia may cause more transphobic speech on the campus of the secular private school where tuition is some $38,000 per year.
The spring season is finally here. Even though there was a lack of snow (personally I don’t care for the snow), there were lots of activities in March across Carroll County Public Schools (CCPS), and even more to come. From special fundraisers, reading activities, and drug prevention awareness, there is no lack of school and community events popping up all over Carroll County.
Katie Speert, the twenty-something Founder and Executive Director of the Westminster youth non-profit Together We Own It, who last year ran for Carroll County Board of Education but bowed out when her organization secured a moneyed contract with Carroll County Public Schools, has been named as the subject of a criminal investigation by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office for alleged sexual solicitation of a female minor, according to the
Conservative author Ryan Anderson deconstructs the transgender craze
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