Taxes, taxes, taxes. When looking at local government, it's often the question most asked by residents: will my taxes increase?

Sept. 11, 2001 began with a local primary election. It ended with a nation mourning a tragedy.

For three weeks in the fall of 2002, people in Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland were terrorized by what seemed like random shootings.

The local sports community reeled in 2003 after the tragic death of a star athlete athlete that was partly responsible for building a Maryland high school football dynasty.

The infamous black book scandal that plagued the city of Frederick starting in 1999, finally mostly came to close in 2004 but not without a few more interesting episodes.

The story of Carroll Creek Park is a long, complicated and expensive one. After decades of planning and development, the first portion of the park finally opened on June 21, 2006. 

Plans for a Muslim retreat in Walkersville were hotly debated throughout a large chunk of 2007.

Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick and a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, took his own life in July 2008.

Even Frederick County’s historically resilient economy was not immune to the economic downturn that began in 2008 and carried over for much of the next five years.

The most talked about news event in 2010 happened just about a month in.

Frederick County drew national attention in 2011 when Urbana High School teacher Michelle Shearer was selected as National Teacher of the Year by the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012, proved to be one of the hallmark days in Frederick County baseball history as Gov. Thomas Johnson High School graduate Branden Kline was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles. Selected near the beginning of the second round as the 65th overall pick, Kline became the first b…

In 2013, plans to build a 1,510-unit development in Monrovia caused public outrage from concerned citizens.

One of the biggest community debates seen in 2015 surrounded the removal of the statue of a former Frederick resident.

Few stories have been followed more closely in the 2010s than America’s opioid epidemic, and in no year was this nationwide problem made more tragically local than 2016.

When authorities thwarted a teenager's plot to commit a mass shooting at Catoctin High School in April 2017, they said she had been planning the attack since as early as December 2016.

Five hours. 300 rescue calls. More than 6 inches of rain.

With all the issues facing Frederick County in 2019, one constantly drew the attention of its residents: immigration.