ANNAPOLIS – Maryland officials began counting down Wednesday to the year 2000, unveiling a 9-foot clock, describing a series of celebrations and announcing a contest to name the state’s millennium mascot

TILGHMAN ISLAND – Darrin Lowery held a black bit of stone that he found on this Tilghman Island beach 23 years ago

CHESTERTOWN – She has been running 15 minutes late all day, but Ellen Sauerbrey still takes time to stop and greet everyone she meets, whether they’re the waitresses at a retirement brunch, community business leaders or just people on the street

ELLICOTT CITY – Eileen Rehrmann bucked her party eight years ago, unseating a Democratic Harford County executive who she said could not beat a Republican challenger for the job

ANNAPOLIS – A new law that will provide medical insurance for 60,000 children and pregnant women from low-income families will likely undergo significant changes in just its second year of operation

TOWSON – Looking up a sloping, green hill from the edge of the road, the pale-pink stucco Hampton Mansion inspires awe

ANNAPOLIS – If you were involved in a boating accident last year, chances are it was on a July Sunday in Anne Arundel County waters while at the helm of a jet ski

BALTIMORE – Campaigning in Baltimore’s Lexington Market one morning, Dr

ELLICOTT CITY – Mr

GERMANTOWN – After legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry cut him, telling him he didn’t have what it took to compete in the NFL, Ray Schoenke went on to play 10 years for the Washington Redskins