K. Mauser

Kat Mauser is a Baltimore Sun intern reporting on local news in Baltimore City, Howard County and Carroll County. She’s a senior English student at James Madison University. She previously interned at The Harrisonburg Citizen.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore delivers the keynote address at the Inauguration of Prince George's County Executive Aisha Braveboy at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center. (Kim Hairston/Staff)

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore elected vice chair, chair-elect of National Governors Association

July 27, 2025 at 3:07 p.m.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will be vice chair and then chair of the National Governors Association, the organization announced Saturday.

Digital Harbor High School students travel on a public bus along Key Highway, heading toward Cherry Hill. (Kevin Richardson/Staff)

Free rides for kids under 12, expanded student access take effect Sunday on some Maryland public transit

July 27, 2025 at 2:32 p.m.

Most of Maryland’s public transit options are now more accessible, especially to kids and students, under new policy changes.

Participants of the Kahlert Leadership Academy at Carroll County’s Boys & Girls Club volunteered at the Hampstead Community Garden Friday. (Courtesy)

Carroll’s Boys & Girls Club learns leadership skills through service

July 26, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Twenty-four adult and youth volunteers from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County's Kahlert Leadership Academy visited the Hampstead Community Garden Friday to maintain garden beds, including reattaching loose boards...

Scarlett Steiner, left, and Bella Battaglia with Grateful Acres 4-H Club, work together to spread mulch on the club's beautification project while setting up for the Carroll County Fair on Thursday. (Brian Krista/Staff)

Carroll County fair to introduce carnival games, new ride for 128th year

July 24, 2025 at 4:55 p.m.

The 128th annual Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair, one of the county's largest tourism events, will kick off Friday.

Carroll County Commissioners, Michael Guerin, District 4, Tom Gordon III, District 3, Ed Rothstein, District 5 - President, Kenneth Kiler, District 2 - Vice-President, and Joseph Vigliotti, District 1, listen to the testimony of Hampstead resident and owner of Kings Tree Farm, Jeremy Myers, who opposes the moratorium of solar farms citing it would result lost opportunities for small business owners in the County. The Carroll County Commissioners hosted a public hearing on a proposed ordinance establishing a six month moratorium of solar farms Thursday February 23, 2023 at the Carroll County Office Building.

Carroll candidates may now apply for District Five Commissioner seat

July 23, 2025 at 5:20 p.m.

Carroll County's Republican Central Committee is now accepting applications for District 5 commissioner on the Board of Carroll County Commissioners, in light Ed Rothstein's early departure.

Carroll Community College and McDaniel College adjunct professor and Baltimorean Jonathan Hugendubler will make his Jeopardy! debut Friday at 7:00 p.m. as a contestant in the final episode of the season. (Jeopardy Productions Inc/Courtesy)

Carroll professor, Baltimorean to make Friday night Jeopardy! debut

July 25, 2025 at 9:53 a.m.

Jonathan Hugendubler will sit at The Brass Tap in Baltimore Friday — where he hosts weekly trivia nights — to watch himself as a contestant on "Jeopardy!" for the first...

Scott Yard, left, CEO of Human Services Programs of Carroll County, and Director of Development Vickie Slinkman in a classroom at their family support center. (Brian Krista/Staff)

Carroll’s Human Services Programs help thousands of low-income households

July 21, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

There are about 9,000 Carroll residents living under the poverty line, CEO Scott Yard said, which amounts to about 6% of Carroll's population, according to data from the U.S. Census...

Jake Fine, founder of Fine Tuned Presents, poses with flyers for local shows he’s held in the Carroll County area. (Kat Mauser/Staff)

Fine Tuned Presents builds Carroll community through live music

July 18, 2025 at 4:47 p.m.

"Fine Tuned feels like the point of not only my music career, but why I exist fundamentally," Fine said. "My purpose is to bring people together through music."

Freestate Firearms Training founder Dave Ritchie, left, and Hap Baker Firearms Facility Chief Range Officer Chuck Hamlet demonstrate the most effective way to tell someone to stay back before using a firearm — hands in front of the body and palms out. (Kat Mauser/Staff)

Concealed carrying in Maryland isn’t only about skills — it’s about mindset

July 18, 2025 at 2:34 p.m.

The first eight-hour day focuses on the mindset of legally carrying a firearm in public and the second focuses on the skill set — both of which a student needs...

Cierra Shaffer stands in front of the playground that her four children, Cameron, Kaia, Addy and Levi, often play at. The playground is right in her new apartment complex, which her family was able to move into after years of searching for affordable housing in Howard County. (Kat Mauser/Staff)

Howard County’s housing crisis will intensify with federal funding cuts

July 17, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Howard County is experiencing a housing crisis, and threats to HUD programs could most endanger those with the lowest incomes.

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