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BALTIMORE -- Forty Carroll County, Maryland, students, ranging from sixth to ninth graders, spent 10 hours across two days this month preparing to defend or prosecute a fictional legal case based on a distracted driving charge. The inaugural free mock trial camp for middle schoolers at the Exploration Commons library branch culminated in a trial at Westminster’s historic courthouse. Although ...
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Carroll County residents both praised and criticized the proposed budget for fiscal 2024 Tuesday night during the final public hearing on the spending plan at Carroll Community College’s Scott Center in Westminster. Commissioners have proposed a $546.7 million operating budget for fiscal 2024.
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Clyde Johnson, a jewelry artist, is the executive director for diversity, equality and inclusion for Carroll Community College. Johnson’s father is a woodcarver and sculptor.
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Pepper, who lives at the Carroll County Public Library system’s Westminster branch at 50 E. Main St., is capable of customizable interactions and gestures through the power of coding, using Choregraphe, a coding language similar to Python.
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The space, which celebrates its one-year anniversary this month, provides free access to cutting-edge technology as an extension of the Carroll County Public Library system.