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Community members will march around Main Street in Westminster on Saturday in honor of Pride month and in remembrance of the 52nd anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Drones, robots and self-driving cars were buzzing through downtown Westminster on Thursday for the ribbon-cutting of the first phase of MAGIC's autonomous

Phase one of autonomous corridor project begins in Md. city KRISTEN GRIFFITH, Carroll County Times May 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) — Drones, robots and self-driving cars were buzzing through downtown Westminster on Thursday for the ribbon-cutting of the first phase of MAGIC’s autonomous corridor project. MAGIC, which stands for Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory, is a technology nonprofit in Carroll County and it has a plan to improve transportation downto...

History was made in two Carroll County municipalities on Monday night as Stacy Link, the first female mayor of Sykesville, and Mona Becker, the first female mayor of Westminster, both were sworn in by Circuit Court Clerk Heather DeWees — the first woman to hold that position.

It’s been a history-making few weeks as the roll call of women who have been mayors in this county’s municipalities is about to double.

Mona Becker, a former councilmember, was elected the city’s first female mayor with 1,020 votes to Dennis Dillon’s 591 to cap a contentious and controversial campaign that resulted in 1,619 ballots being cast, a more than 50% increase over the number cast during the last mayoral election.

Mona Becker, a former councilmember, was elected as the city’s first female mayor Tuesday night. And although she’s excited to have the title, it was not the focal point of her campaign.

State Roundup: Some GOP lawmakers prefer Schulz over Steele for governor A view of the offshore wind farm from Block Island, RI. The windmills are 3.8 miles off shore; those just approved off of Marthas Vineyard will be three times further out in the ocean, 12 miles. Photo by Val Stori, Clean Energy Group with Flickr Creative Commons License GOP LAWMAKERS SAY THEY’d BACK SCHULZ OVER STEELE FOR GOV: Several of Maryland’s Republican lawmakers said that they would back state Commerce Secretary...

A letter sent Monday from Republican delegates claimed the city’s disallowance of poll watchers and elected officials' support of one of the candidates is cause to question the election’s integrity. However, the city disagrees and the mayor said they are pulling a page out of the national presidential election when former president Donald Trump questioned the results of the 2020 election.