The year was 1971, and I can vividly recall cruising Laurel Shopping Center in my ’66 Chevy Impala from Mid-City Chevrolet while listening to the song “Signs” by the Five Man Electrical Band. Little did I know then that some 50 years later, my wife Martha and I would own a few from Laurel. Signs are indeed everywhere. They become part of the landscape that we sometimes take for granted, not missing them until they’re changed or simply gone. I was reminded of this recently whe

Mayor Robert J. DiPietro (left) and the City Council at the 1980 election results: Jim Cross, President, Lynn Roehrich, Dani Duniho, H....

In 1910 the General Assembly enacted a law creating the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles led by John E. George and was located at the Union...

Over the years, I’ve had the good fortune to find and preserve a number of items from the Laurel Police Department’s history, going...

Laurel Park—at other times known as Laurel Race Course, or known to longtime locals simply as “The Race Track”—has been a core element of...