Jeff Degitz News Today

The Westminster Veterans Memorial Park will soon add a sidewalk for better access to the planned memorial garden.

Carroll County officials are continuing to consider changing a law that bans all motorized vehicles from county-owned park trails, in order to allow people to ride a certain class of motorized bikes.

As improvements at Cape Horn Park in Hampstead continue, commissioners last week approved funding to install electricity for new lights to be installed at two soccer fields there.

The Board of Carroll County Commissioners unanimously approved $34,719 for the paving of an existing gravel parking lot that can hold 32 vehicles and $83,069 for a new steel pavilion at Sykesville’s Freedom Park.

The Board of Carroll County Commissioners unanimously approved $34,719 for the paving of an existing gravel parking lot that can hold 32 vehicles and $83,069 for a new steel pavilion at Sykesville’s Freedom Park.

The Board of Carroll County Commissioners at their meeting on Dec. 22, unanimously approved the installation of new lighting at the park. The cost of the new lighting is $490,024.

Carroll County commissioners on Thursday approved almost $50,000 in county funds to repair and replace equipment at Piney Run Park in Sykesville.

On Thursday, the Board of Carroll County Commissioners unanimously approved more than $400,000 in spending on a series of contracts aimed at improving county properties and for the purchase of vehicles for various government departments.

Carroll County officials held a ceremony Tuesday morning to celebrate the opening of the first phase of the county’s newest park, Westminster Veterans Memorial Park on Crest Lane.

Four Carroll County municipalities will each receive $138,687 in state grant funding to pay for park improvement projects this year.