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The bridge is quite unusual and now it is temporarily closed because guiderail damaged.

The Carroll County Health Department reported last week normal levels of E. Coli in Piney Run Creek in Hampstead after 100,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled in the stream last month.

The Carroll County Health Department is awaiting water test results from Piney Run Creek in Hampstead, following the spillage of 100,000 gallons of raw sewage there earlier this month.

Last month Baltimore County's inspector general opened an investigation into a complaint that a political fundraising event for County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. influenced his administration’s decision to sign off on the Eagle Transfer Station.

It was during the height of COVID-19 that Joe Rice and his boys Gavin and Easton first discovered Piney Run Park in Sykesville.

The Carroll County park’s boathouse is closed indefinitely due to lack of staff and other park offerings will also be limited or closed until staff can be hired, officials said.

Carroll County’s Department of Recreation and Parks wants to make one thing clear: Piney Run Park in Sykesville is not closing.

Public input is being sought until this Friday on a new section of the Patapsco Regional Greenway in Carroll County and Howard County which is planned to run through the Sykesville and McKeldin area.

Why can’t we leave Wakefield Valley as open space? Why can’t we leave it as a place for people to walk and enjoy peace from their hectic lives? Why can’t we let people walk their dogs, their children and share nature with them?