New Windsor

A national company has agreed to purchase the Ryland Building Systems plant, which manufactures roof and floor trusses, and increase production and staff at the New Windsor location.Officials at Universal Forest Products, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., met with Ryland employees last week to announce the purchase of the 37-acre property on Route 31, a transaction it expects to complete by the end of the month. Terms for the sale of the 142,000-square-foot factory have not been disclosed. The asking price was $6.5 million.

A 29-year-old New Windsor man died Monday after fleeing police in Finksburg, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office said. The man ignored a deputy's attempts to pull him over at 6:25 a.m. as he sped onto Old Gamber Road. The driver turned right onto Old Westminster Pike, into a parking lot in the 2200 block of Baltimore Boulevard and back on to Baltimore Boulevard when the Dodge Ram he was driving struck an eastbound Ford van. The drivers of both vehicles were transported by ambulance to Carroll Hospital Center, where the 29-year-old man died as a result of the injuries he sustained in the accident.

A 29-year-old New Windsor man died Monday after fleeing police in Finksburg, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office said. The man ignored a deputy's attempts to pull him over at 6:25 a.m. as he sped onto Old Gamber Road. The driver turned right onto Old Westminster Pike, into a parking lot in the 2200 block of Baltimore Boulevard and back on to Baltimore Boulevard when the Dodge Ram he was driving struck an eastbound Ford van. The drivers of both vehicles were transported by ambulance to Carroll Hospital Center, where the 29-year-old man died as a result of the injuries he sustained in the accident.

Bob Nobles III plans to be a Santa's helper this year. He will distribute toys and other gifts to young people who come to the Kennedy Krieger Institute's upcoming Festival of Trees. But it won't be the first time that the New Windsor teenager has put a smile on someone else's face. Nobles, a junior at Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger High School, was chosen as the 2012 ambassador for the holiday gala known as Festival of Trees. Nobles, who has Asperger's Syndrome, is used to public appearances.

A New Windsor farm is one of three operations in Maryland that will be featured on Monday, July 16, during a Chefs Go Fresh farm tour Local Washington and Maryland chefs will rev up for the motorcycle tour in an effort to build relationships with area chefs and purveyors of produce, meats and other farm-raised products. Shepherds Manor Creamery in New Windsor, which produces "artisan sheep cheese," will be one of three stops on the tour. The creamery and farm is operated by Colleen and Michael Histon, and was named by the Carroll County Department of Economic Development as its 2011 Agribusiness Award winner.

Peggy Conrad vividly recalls attending the very first Maryland Wine Festival, held in September 1984, at the Shriver Homestead in Union Mills, on a whim. "I just heard about it and thought I would check it out and see how much I liked it," said Conrad, who worked for the county government for 31 years and is now retired. "I was not a big wine drinker back then. " Suffice it to say, it turned out that Conrad enjoyed that first festival quite a bit - and also ended up developing a fondness for white wines.

New Windsor has been overrun by progress. Once a sleepy farming town, it is now a hotbed of residential development. Like several other municipalities in Carroll County, New Windsor is bedeviled by the problems of an old town as well as those of a fast-growing suburb. Older sections need revitalization, while new subdivisions require additional sources of water and strain existing wastewater treatment capacity.For many years, New Windsor's town government operated on inertia. The election of Mayor Jack A. Gullo, Jr. two years ago has energized the government.

Something is not right when juveniles can vandalize a town for hours and nothing is done to stop them. Early on June 11, a band of kids rampaged through New Windsor, spray-painting cars, street signs and lampposts; breaking a window at a nearly completed middle school, and damaging bleachers and a portable toilet at the town park. When they were done, they had destroyed several thousand dollars' worth of property.Even though New Windsor, Carroll County's smallest incorporated municipality, appears to be the quintessential close-knit community, a small band of juveniles has systematically helped to ruin the town's civic life.

For the better part of two centuries, the stately circa-1804 Dielman Inn has been a dominant features of New Windsor's quiet Main Street and a centerpiece of the town's architectural and cultural heritage. But for nearly a decade, this cornerstone of New Windsor's historic district has stood vacant and dilapidated, ravaged by roof leaks, termites, occasional vandalism and general neglect. Those contrasting factors — the building's overriding historic importance and its precarious condition — have earned the Dielman Inn inclusion on Preservation Maryland's 2010 Endangered Maryland list.

Bob Nobles III plans to be a Santa's helper this year. He will distribute toys and other gifts to young people who come to the Kennedy Krieger Institute's upcoming Festival of Trees. But it won't be the first time that the New Windsor teenager has put a smile on someone else's face. Nobles, a junior at Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger High School, was chosen as the 2012 ambassador for the holiday gala known as Festival of Trees. Nobles, who has Asperger's Syndrome, is used to public appearances.

Michael and Nicole Lawall, of Laurel, announce the birth of their daughter, Savannah Marie Lawall, on Sept. 18, 2012, at 8:32 a.m. She weighed 9 pounds and was 21 1/2 inches long. Big brother Landon welcomed her with open arms. Maternal grandparents are Karen and Chris Walker, of Laurel. Paternal grandparents are Sue Mullinix, of Laurel, Chad Mullinix, of New Windsor and John Lawall Sr., of Elkridge.

Peggy Conrad vividly recalls attending the very first Maryland Wine Festival, held in September 1984, at the Shriver Homestead in Union Mills, on a whim. "I just heard about it and thought I would check it out and see how much I liked it," said Conrad, who worked for the county government for 31 years and is now retired. "I was not a big wine drinker back then. " Suffice it to say, it turned out that Conrad enjoyed that first festival quite a bit - and also ended up developing a fondness for white wines.

When it comes to expanding its New Windsor quarry operation, Lehigh Cement Co. is looking years down the road. But it gave a preview Aug. 8 of its plan to transport millions of tons of stone between the quarry and its processing plant in Union Bridge about 4 1/2 miles away. Officials from the company provided the Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission members and New Windsor residents with a bus tour of the proposed expansion site, which will encompass about 635 acres between Route 31 and Old New Windsor Road, just southeast of New Windsor.

A New Windsor farm is one of three operations in Maryland that will be featured on Monday, July 16, during a Chefs Go Fresh farm tour Local Washington and Maryland chefs will rev up for the motorcycle tour in an effort to build relationships with area chefs and purveyors of produce, meats and other farm-raised products. Shepherds Manor Creamery in New Windsor, which produces "artisan sheep cheese," will be one of three stops on the tour. The creamery and farm is operated by Colleen and Michael Histon, and was named by the Carroll County Department of Economic Development as its 2011 Agribusiness Award winner.

For nearly a century, Carroll County's smallest town has supplied stone to the massive Lehigh Cement Co. plant that employs many in the community. But the company finds itself at a crossroads — with the quarry nearly depleted, it is eyeing a new supply from a limestone-rich mine that it owns in another town. The company's plan: Construct a 4.5-mile conveyor system that would run under roads, rails and streams — and over acres of protected farmland between the quarry and the plant in Union Bridge.

For the better part of two centuries, the stately circa-1804 Dielman Inn has been a dominant features of New Windsor's quiet Main Street and a centerpiece of the town's architectural and cultural heritage. But for nearly a decade, this cornerstone of New Windsor's historic district has stood vacant and dilapidated, ravaged by roof leaks, termites, occasional vandalism and general neglect. Those contrasting factors — the building's overriding historic importance and its precarious condition — have earned the Dielman Inn inclusion on Preservation Maryland's 2010 Endangered Maryland list.

FIRE* New Windsor: Engines from the New Windsor station were dispatched to investigate an alarm sounding in a building on Cardinal Drive at 7:14 p.m. Sunday. Units were out for 30 minutes.

New Windsor has purchased 12 acres on Bowersox Road for $110,000.The land is within 25 feet of a town spring, part of its water supply, and adjoins a 100-acre farm, which the town owns. No development will take place on the land."We needed the 12 acres to protect our current springs," said Mayor Jack A. Gullo Jr.FireNew Windsor: Firefighters responded at 10: 47 p.m. Tuesday to investigate a report of a fire in the 3800 block of Watson Lane. Units were out 27 minutes.Pub Date: 9/05/96

In the quaint town of New Windsor, officials have sold the municipal ball fields to a cement company, purchased a dilapidated inn with taxpayer money for development that hasn't happened and stuck residents with the bill for a nearly $5 million wastewater treatment plant. While the town council is up for election next year, angry residents aren't waiting to express their displeasure. They're pushing a measure to allow the recall of local officials. Petitioners say they aren't targeting the entire council or any one official: They want their petition campaign to send a message to all. "We are not Occupy New Windsor," said Rebecca Merson, who moved to Atlee Ridge, one of the town's new developments, in 2004.

Digging into the past can be an intriguing and enlightening experience. But when it involves slogging for hours through shin-deep mud and frigid water on a chilly November morning, it might tend to dampen the intrigue and stifle the enlightenment a little bit. Not so for a dozen or so students from New Windsor Middle School who, on a recent Saturday morning, participated in an ongoing archaeological dig at one of New Windsor's landmarks, its...