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Smoketown Brewing Station: Looking to the past to chart the future

By Karen Gardner Smoketown Brewing Station plans to live up to its legacy. That’s a tall order, considering the Brunswick, Maryland, brewery is located in a former fire hall which once hosted the likes of Patsy Cline, Guy Lombardo and Kix. It was also home to spaghetti dinners and pancake breakfasts, and served as a place for neighbors to meet at local social functions. But ground was...

Mark Barlet – Able Gamers

By PAUL LONG If you grew up playing arcade-style video games in the 1980s – iconic games like Space Invaders, Asteroids and Pac-Man – chances are you probably wouldn’t recognize the games being played today. Of course, the technology behind those games has progressed far beyond what was even considered possible a generation or two ago. And perhaps the biggest difference is that most of today’s most...

The Village Square brings the ocean to downtown Winchester

By Josette Keelor Dan Kalber tried his first oyster at the age of 6, and “it changed everything.” Years later, while attending a third-grade career fair, he met a chef, and just like that a career path was formed. “I never looked back,” he said. Kalber attended New York’s Culinary Institute of America, then took a brief job in Las Vegas...