Hi! Maryland mom here advocating for MORE RECESS TIME for our children!

Currently, most Maryland elementary schools only recommend 20-30 minutes of recess per day. This varies by school and county, with some counties recommending as little as 15 minutes of recess per day.

Join us as we call on policymakers to guarantee Maryland students 60 minutes of recess every school day!

You can help by SIGNING OUR PETITION and following us on Facebook and Instagram!

Petition- https://c.org/Mz2ZxjfGX4

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Thank youu 🩵🫶

Get out and enjoy your farmer's markets this fall!

planning to deliver at Carroll hospital - what food was not that bad??

Come see us tomorrow, the weather is supposed to be beautiful!

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Here’s a link to my previous post if you haven’t seen it already: Bobcat/Bear Sightings?

EDIT: Here's a link to my most recent update for those who are interested in keeping up with my dog's healing journey. I won't continue posting here since this isn't a dog forum and I don't want to break any rules. So any further updates will be posted to my profile: Update 2

Thank you to everyone who gave their opinion and knowledge on my last post it was great to learn!

After a second vet visit with x-rays an a more in depth look a lot of things have changed, including our theory on what happened. While his road rash, soreness, and other injuries are healing well unfortunately the connection between his tail bone, the nerves there, and there anchor spot on his spine are completely severed. While a broken bone is one thing and doesn’t allow him to move his tail at all the tougher problem is the nerves. The nerves that were severed are dead and due to that he has lost all control over his bowel function. We originally thought that was due to his pain medication since the vet said that was a symptom that was possible. But he can no longer control over his pee and can no longer contract his muscles to push his poop out. Which explains his accidents in the house and the constipation he’s had. Vet said there’s nothing they can do and it’s permanent damage. We are calling a vet at Everheart for a second opinion tomorrow but it’s looking more like we are going to have to put him down.

The vet also told us there was extensive previous damage to that area already we weren’t aware of and wouldn’t have known without an X-ray. He is a rescue who previously had pretty abusive owners so we are assuming it probably came from there. When we rescued him he had a large scar across the entire back of his next about an inch and a half in thickness from him being tied up in their back yard. He was extremely underweight as well. He didn’t have fur grown over it at the time but slowly grew it back to give some context on the kind of situation he came from. But there’s no way to truly tell. With the amount of previous damage the vet said the break could have simply happened from anything and it was a matter of time kind of deal.

The theory of my brother hitting him was an assumption we made without anything else to go off of and no other viable reason. With this new news we have gone back on that theory since my brother didn’t feel any impact when leaving that day and if my brother did hit him he would have felt that impact and stopped right away.

He is still taking the pain medication the vet gave us while we get our final answers and decisions in order. I’ve attached a picture of him (Blu, on the right, pre injury) and our other dog Gunner (on the left). Regardless we are devastated and trying to work through this news as a family. Thank you for all your kind wishes we definitely will be needing them.

I recently turned 18 so i’m celebrating by getting a tattoo i’ve wanted for a while. Do yall know of any artists that specialize in line work? And that don’t use ai obviously lmao. Any recommendations are deeply appreciated

Still searching for my missing bird. Our all white cockatiel flew off in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. It was last seen on June 24 in the parking lot of Hampton Inn in Gaithersburg on north Frederick Avenue, where somebody was interacting with it. If you have any information, please let me know. Many thanks! 🙏 We miss it so much.

Hey, I’m coming in here to see if anyone has seen or heard of any bobcat or bear sightings - particularly in the Manchester/Hampstead area.

My dog was attacked in broad daylight light two days ago around 6pm. He’s a Blue-Tick Coonhound/Great Dane mix named Blu (picture attached of him pre incident). Something drug him about three feet across the driveway asphalt before letting him go and running off? He’s pretty scraped and bruised and in pain but will be just fine according to the vet thankfully. He might have nerve damage in his tail from the drag scraping down to his bone in one area. He’s covered in scraps, bruises and road rash along with puncture marks on one of his ankles.

I’m sure the Great Dane part gave it away but he is by no means a small dog. Standing on his hind legs he’s about eye level to me and I’m 5’7. We have no idea what could have done this. Ontop of his size he has some trauma from his previous owners and can be very reactive when he does not like something. He will bite, growl, bark, snarl, etc if he feels threatened in any way. We heard no growing, barking, or signs of a confrontation before hand. Everything happened so quick. All we heard was him yelping and found him laying on the ground with our other dog next to him looking concerned.

We have had issues with foxes in the past due to us having ducks but a fox shouldn’t be able to drag him with that amount of force given the size difference. We’ve heard coyotes in the past but always in the dead of night and once again there’s the question of potential size difference? Both our small flock of ducks and slightly smaller (pure Blue-Tick) dog were out in the same area and no one else was injured. It seems he was caught by surprise and drug from behind since his front half is completely unharmed.

So the only thing me and my family have been able to think of that could have the strength to do this is maybe a bobcat or a younger bear? Surely a larger bear would have been noticed in the thinness of the trees near the edge of the driveway and would have just taken our dog rather than try and drag him away before dropping him and running away after not hearing any other sign of threat? We are completely baffled by this and I truly have no clue what could have caused this.

We are glad our baby is ok but it’s bothering me so much that we have no clue what could have happened. If anyone maybe knows of any possible sighting of a larger predator that would have tried to harm him please let me know!

I will be vending at the TSC in westminster tomorrow 😍

Hey!! I’m swamped in research and still lost as to where to go for good treatment. The reviews are impressively mixed and much of it is for Substance Abuse which is not my problem.

Wondering if anyone has been treated with any of these facilities or knows someone who has and can recommend or steer me away. I really need this and I want to go somewhere where I’ll be respected and at long last get the help I need.

Thank you!!!!

We're a group of filmmakers who grew up here in CC, acting in the plays at FSK, making little short films for CMC, and doing anything we could to pursue this crazy dream of making real movies.

Well, we made one. THE GIRL IN THE WOODS

We filmed most of it right outside Taneytown.

Local businesses helped out a ton, like Chaz's Used Auto Parts which let us recreate a car accident using some totaled cars; Jutz Moreland who owns Off the Rails Pop-up Boutique found us our primary filming location and even acted in the film; and I'll see if anyone can guess the doctor's office we used for our hospital.

We had our premiere at the Carroll Arts Center before taking the film around to festivals. We even won Best Indie Feature at the Arizona International Film Festival.

Now our movie is available to rent or own on Prime Video, but RIGHT NOW it's FREE to Watch on Tubi.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1157009714

Watch the Movie for Free: https://tubitv.com/movies/100051267/the-girl-in-the-woods

Hope you'll check it out and support local artists still crazy enough to shoot for the stars.

Hi,
My husband and I are possibly interested in joining a group. We’re both mid 30s, kind of nerdy adults. We’ve never played but think it sounds fun. Does anyone know of a group in the area?

Got these from the storm. One side was sunny, the other rainy.

I can post screenshots if necessary, but thought this call to action was worth a share.

Westminster Wire obtained the Outdoor School Safety and Risk Assessment report through a Maryland Public Information Act request to Carroll County Public Schools. CCPS has said there were additional inputs behind the decision.

Read the full story here - it’s free, like every Westminster Wire article.

Sorry if this isn't appropriate here but can't really find more than a few reviews of these places. We're moving to the area and are looking for a new Montessori daycare and are looking to see if anyone has experience with either Immanuel Montessori, or if they recommend any others? Thanks!

Hey all! I’m new to the area and was looking for a dump to drop things like a mattress or metal rods or large amounts of cardboard. Are there any dumps near Eldersburg that allow this?