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Wednesday, May 09, 2018
Kevin Dayhoff Brief Bio March 1, 2018
Thursday, March 30, 2017
This Day in History: March 30, 1999 Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Common Council
Sunday, February 26, 2017
This day in history - Feb. 25, 2001: Kevin Dayhoff - Group starting local bank Penn Mar Community Bank
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Dayhoff uses computer screen as easel by Lyndi McNulty
By Lyndi McNulty Eye for Art http://tinyurl.com/ygpfy7r
Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:24 PM EST
http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/11/16/advocate_of_eldersburg/columns/eye_for_art/doc4b0197d38917e200489972.txt
My Off Track Art work station on August 21, 2009 Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/yegvz39 Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/qzhwj or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/258030332/my-off-track-art-work-station-on-august-21-2009
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Kevin Dayhoff greeted me with a quick smile and a familiar “How’s your behavior?” as he peered from behind his computer screen as I entered the Off Track Art gallery at 11 Liberty St. in downtown Westminster last week for an interview.
He was a collage artist at work. However, it was not the traditional cluttered scene of an artist’s studio. There was no easel, piles of images and collage materials, an array of glues or even a palette plate of paint daubs sitting on top of boxes of art supplies. His canvas was his computer screen, and he was trying to get an image to paste properly into a collage.
The gallery is wonderful display of the work of 14 other artists. They all belong in an artists’ cooperative, Off Track Art, situated alongside the railroad tracks in the center of town at Main and Liberty streets.
Dayhoff is a lifelong Carroll County artist. A native of Westminster, he has had a wide range of experience and interests. He has been a landscaper, artist, writer and even the local town mayor.
He inherited his art talent from his parents. His father was an artist-painter-cabinetmaker. His mother is a culinary artist. In 1958, his interest in art surfaced when he was only five years old. People took a special interest in his drawing. His mother encouraged him draw a pirate when he was 5 and entered it into a drawing contest.
All through Carroll County Public Schools, Dayhoff drew, created collages, and wrote short stories. He was the boy sports editor for the Westminster High School yearbook and collaged many of the photographs in the 1971 yearbook – the year he graduated. In addition, Dayhoff studied photography in the 1960s in 4-H. Later, as a landscape designer, he took photographs of the properties and expanded that into his artwork.
When asked about what it was like to grow up an artist in Carroll County, Dayhoff has nothing but praise.
“There is no better place to be an artist than Carroll County. I have rarely met disapproval, only encouragement,” he said.
Read the rest of Ms. McNulty’s article here: Dayhoff uses computer screen as easel by Lyndi McNulty
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase
By: Lorene Yue April 15, 2009 Crain’s Chicago Business
(Crain’s) — Sam Zell admits that taking over Tribune Co. hasn’t gone according to plan and was a “mistake.”
“The definition if you bought something and it’s now worth a great deal less, you made a mistake,” he told Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. “And I’m more than willing to say I made a mistake. I was too optimistic in terms of the newspaper’s ability to preserve its position.”
The Chicago billionaire, who made his fortune from commercial real estate, was instrumental in taking the parent of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times private through a complex deal that saddled it with $13 billion in debt. Tribune Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December, a move Mr. Zell said in Wednesday’s interview was necessary to “stop the bleeding and preserve a great company.”
The process that Mr. Zell used to take Tribune private caught the attention recently of the U.S. Department of Labor, which last month subpoenaed the company for documents related to its Employees Stock Ownership Plan, now the sole owner of Tribune Co.
Read the rest here: Zell admits ‘mistake’ in TribCo purchase
(20071028 Tribune, Patuxent Publishing Group, Baltimore Sun disclosure Kevin Dayhoff writes for three of the newspapers in the Patuxent Publishing Group, the Sunday Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle and Eldersburg Eagle. The Patuxent Publishing Group is owned by “Tribune.” Tribune also owns the Baltimore Sun – and as a matter of fact, the Sunday Carroll Eagle is distributed in the Sunday edition of the Baltimore Sun – see: 20071021 Baltimore Sun: “To our readers.”) Additionally I write for an online magazine, The Tentacle.)
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Off Track Art
January 12, 2009 – January 14, 2009
Grand Opening is scheduled for Feb. 13th, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
“Off Track Art” is an artists’ collective and gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty Street – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of West Main St and MD 27-Liberty St - in downtown Westminster, Maryland. We are dedicated to advancing the arts in Westminster as well as the careers, ideas, and artistic visions of its members.
Tentative Gallery Hours are:
Monday through Wednesday 12 - 6:00 pm
Thursday and Friday 12 - 7:00 pm
Saturday 10 - 5:00 pm
Off Track Art
11 Liberty Street – rear
Westminster, MD 21157
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Junction disclosure and information
November 20, 2008
Click here for posts on Soundtrack on Junction.
The web site for Junction can be found here: http://www.junctioninc.org/
I’ve been a member of the board of Junction since October 2000.
Junction is a local Westminster Carroll County Maryland private nonprofit agency for substance abuse prevention and outpatient drug treatment. It provides prevention, intervention, and treatment of substance abuse for individuals, their families, and the community through education, counseling, community collaboration, and leadership in Carroll County.
It was incorporated on September 27, 1971. A month after incorporation, on December 6, 1971, it opened its doors in the historic Carroll County Jail on Court Street in Westminster.
Junction Inc., http://www.junctioninc.org/, (410) 848-6100, 98 North Court Street, P. O. Box 206, Westminster, MD 21158
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Some thoughts on “Union says more job cuts coming at the Baltimore Sun”
Hat Tip: The Gunpowder Chronicle
November 15th, 2008 - My thoughts, for what they are worth…
Lately the topic of another round of layoffs and adjustments in the business of Tribune and the Baltimore Sun has been the subject of some discussions among several of us who work for Tribune. (See my media disclosure here. I work for Tribune.)
I have also been a critic of the Baltimore Sun’s political coverage in the past and I agree that the widespread perception of bias on the part of the Baltimore Sun has been detrimental to the overall health of the paper.
Moreover I continue to believe that liberal media bias plagues too much of the traditional mainstream media.
However, when I read criticism that involves hyperbolic name-calling, the critic loses the argument with me. (And yes, I am aware of past columns and blog posts in which I have engaged in some name calling… I guess I am a recovering name caller…)
Nevertheless, the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun continues to promote the paper in an unfavorable light. The fact that I disagree with much of the editorial slant does not concern me. What concerns me is that all too often the position of the board is inconsistent, displays situational principles, and is personality driven.
Perhaps this is simply the nature of the beast, but I would much rather see objective consistent community-benefit-driven analysis and commentary, instead of a newspaper editorial board parroting the talking points and spin of a particular individual, political party, or ideology.
To say it clearly, anything Illinois Sen. Barack Obama or Maryland Governor O’Malley = GOOD. Anything conservative, Arizona Sen. John McCain, or former Governor Robert l. Ehrlich = BAD.
If you need a more recent example, take a look at slots: Slots under Governor Ehrlich = BAD. Slots under Governor O’Malley = GOOD. What changed…?
However, the local community newspaper arm of Tribune – The Baltimore Sun, the Patuxent Publishing Company, (Explore Baltimore Co., Explore Carroll Co. - the paper for which I write, and Explore Howard Co.,) continues to deliver quality news and reporting. Of course, part of the reason for that is that those of us on the local community level have a higher level of accountability in that we can often be found at the same pizza parlor and grocery store check out line with the very folks we cover.
Nonetheless, the current economic times are a strain on all businesses, including newspapers, the metros, and the community newspapers alike.
In spite of the bewildering approach of the Baltimore Sun’s editorial board, most all the reporters are quite professional, talented, and objective in their reporting.
In the end they all have families and unless a particular individual displays a personal animus or maliciousness; critics of the paper may benefit from a more constructive engagement with the reporters. And I hate to see anyone lose his or her job – especially these days.
And especially a writer: What do you call a writer without a significant other? Homeless.
There is a growing perception that the management of the Baltimore Sun is trying hard to adjust to the times – with more accessibility and less of the condescending arrogance that has manifested in the corporate personality of the paper in the past.
As an aside; whether I agree or disagree with the columnists, I like the sharp writing of most of the columnists (and most of the reporters) – and I like the paper’s recent foray into blogs. And I like the improvements in the web site.
The debate about blogger journalists versus traditional print media journalists has been getting increasingly boring – see 20070112 Some wisdom about the silliest debate in journalism. There are good and bad in both camps. If you don’t like a particular writer, don’t read them.
I read writers – not headlines - and not papers...
Attempting to promote blogs and new media by carelessly denigrating traditional print media is a disservice to all journalists and journalism and brings all of us down.
Considering the challenges at the local level, in Maryland and the nation; the press has, if anything, an increased responsibility and there is an important role for the Baltimore Sun to play.
We need greater cooperation, collaboration – and we need all hands on deck.
Kevin Dayhoff
Union says more job cuts coming at the Baltimore Sun
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Baltimore Business Journal - by Julekha Dash Staff
A Baltimore Sun union said Thursday it expects another round of job cuts at the newspaper, and officials are preparing to fight any future layoffs.
The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild said it expects more job cuts within days. Angie Kuhl, a unit chair with the union, said she does not know how many job cuts are planned. But union officials don’t expect buyouts to be offered, as they have been in the past, and the cuts will impact the newsroom.
Renee Mutchnik, a Baltimore Sun spokeswoman, said Sun management has no comment.
The Sun eliminated 100 positions at the paper in August. It also recently eliminated its standalone Maryland and Business sections as part of an overall redesign.
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Tribune Co., the Sun’s parent, posted a $124 million third quarter loss this month.
The newspaper, Maryland’s largest daily publication, saw its average Sunday circulation number fall 3.9 percent to 350,640 during the period.
Read the entire article here: Union says more job cuts coming at the Baltimore Sun
Tribune Co. posts $124M loss
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2008/11/10/daily53.html
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Kevin Dayhoff Tribune, Patuxent Publishing Group, Baltimore Sun, The Tentacle, and WEAA, disclosure
November 11, 2008
Kevin Dayhoff writes for three of the newspapers in the Patuxent Publishing Group, the Sunday Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle and Eldersburg Eagle. (http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion-talk/)
The Patuxent Publishing Group is owned by “Tribune.”
Tribune also owns the Baltimore Sun. The Sunday Carroll Eagle is distributed in the Sunday edition of the Baltimore Sun – see: 20071021 Baltimore Sun: “To our readers.”)
Additionally he writes for an online magazine, “The Tentacle.” (http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41)
He is also a periodic guest on the Marc Steiner Show on WEAA. (http://www.centerforemergingmedia.org/)
“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.” Tennessee Williams
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Kevin Dayhoff WEAA brief profile
Kevin Dayhoff WEAA brief profile
October 8, 2008
Kevin Dayhoff is a retired elected official - - having served six years as an elected official of the City of Westminster, most recently as Mayor of Westminster.
He is a retired landscaper and nursery stock farmer from Westminster, Carroll County, MD.
In addition to his blog, “The Soundtrack Division of Old Silent Movies:” http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/ or http://www.kevindayhoff.net/.
He is a regular columnist for an on-line columnist collective, “The Tentacle:” http://www.thetentacle.com/ and a Maryland newspaper columnist for “The Westminster Eagle:” http://www.explorecarroll.com/: Opinion section: http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion-talk/,) a publication of Patuxent Publishing, a subsidiary of Tribune.
He is a member of the Maryland Blogger Alliance and Capitolbeat, the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors.
An avid artist and writer, he continues his interest in art, music and books, government and politics, technology, the environment, business and Ag issues.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
20080716 Being and artist and growing up in Carroll County by Lyndi McNulty
Eye for Art: “Being an artist and growing up in Carroll” by Lyndi McNulty
“There is no better place to be an artist than Carroll County,” exclaimed Kevin Dayhoff of Westminster. “Lots of people have asked me what it is like to grow up an artist here. It’s great. Growing up in Carroll County you learn self-sufficiency, independent thinking and personal responsibility. You learn that the world doesn’t owe you a living because you are a writer and an artist,” he said.
“There is a great sense of artistic collaboration in Carroll County that comes from our agricultural heritage, such as when folks got together and did barn raising,” he said.
“I grew up an artist and a writer. My mom, my dad and my friends were very supportive. My father was a painter and a woodworking artist, creating both art and beautiful furniture out of wood, and mother is a culinary artist,” Dayhoff reflected.
“One of my earliest discoveries with art was drawing cartoons and caricatures. I used to sit in class and draw caricatures of the teachers. Even today, I continue to draw postcard size caricatures of daily events, vacations and people in the news. I make my own vacation ‘mail art’ postcards,” he said, laughing.
“‘Mail art’ opened up the world for me long before the internet. After almost two decades, I still have a collaborative mail art partner in Japan.”
Combination of talents
“My main preoccupations growing up were reading, art, writing short stories, and plants. I was very fortunate to put them all together and make a living. That is how I got into landscaping. After all, landscaping is a 3-D mixed media assemblage with plants,” Dayhoff said.
“I also learned that if I spent hours doing a collage I ended up with a storage problem. But, if I drew a landscape design and did a landscape collage with plants, I got paid for it.” In 1974 Dayhoff started a landscaping, designing and nursery business. That business also gave him time to do art and write.
Dayhoff’s work from the 1980s and 1990s included art created on copying machines, color experimentation, collaging and new technologies.
Since his first art show at the Theatre Project in Baltimore in 1981, Dayhoff has been exhibiting art, including mixed media collages, drawings, sculpture and photography.
“I have had a lifelong interest in color [and] spatial relationships putting together incongruent objects. In recent years I have expanded my use of technology to collage with a digital camera, a scanner and a computer. I was inspired by Sue Bloom, a McDaniel art professor, who uses computers to create art,” he said.
“The collages are about putting seemingly disparate items and qualities together to give them a new meaning and a new purpose,” Dayhoff explained. “A lot of the collages began to come off the page into a much more sculptural element as a result of the inspiration of Wasyl Palijezuk, a now retired art professor at McDaniel College.”
Dayhoff has taught art, horticultural and landscape design as an adjunct faculty member for Carroll Community College.
On display
He has exhibited his art for the Carroll County Arts Council for the past two decades as well as at other venues.
“There are so many opportunities for art and culture to flourish in Westminster,” he said. “Capitalizing upon the successes of Common Ground on the Hill, the McDaniel and Carroll Community College Art community and the Carroll Arts Center Carroll, Westminster is the perfect place for art studios, art galleries and artists to live and work, especially on Pennsylvania Avenue and Main Street.”
“Growing up an artist has always been an advantage in my life as it teaches you to be a collaborative and creative problem solver and think outside of the box,” Dayhoff said.
He can be contacted at
— Lyndi McNulty is owner of Gizmos Art in Westminster.
Art, Art – Eye for Art Lyndi McNulty Advocate, Dayhoff bio and disclosures
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
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The Patuxent Publishing Group is owned by “Tribune.” Tribune also owns the Baltimore Sun – and as a matter of fact, the Sunday Carroll Eagle is distributed in the Sunday edition of the Baltimore Sun – see: 20071021 Baltimore Sun: “To our readers.”)
Additionally he writes for an online magazine, “The Tentacle.”
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Thursday, December 22, 2005
Kevin Dayhoff Contact info
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Thursday, December 01, 2005
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Kevin E. Dayhoff
October 5th, 2006
Kevin, age 53, is a
He has written a weekly political and history column for The Tentacle, an on-line columnist collective, since June 9, 2005. Since June 2, 2005, he has written a weekly community events and history column for the Westminster Eagle, a weekly newspaper publication of Patuxent Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Tribune. He has written an on-line column, the Winchester Report for the Westminster Eagle, since December 2005.
He has also authored an arts, history, community events and political blog, “Kevin Dayhoff” (formerly www.kevindayhoff.com) since December 2005. The blog was moved October 1, 2006 to blogspot’s platform: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/.
On January 6th, 2006, thanks to the Westminster Eagle and Patuxent Publishing Co, I may very well be the first blogger to be credentialed in
Since June 30, 2006, he has been a member of the Maryland Bloggers’
From June 30, 2004 through October 21, 2005, he wrote a weekly column on Westminster and Carroll County community affairs and history for the Westminster Advocate, weekly newspaper published by the Carroll County Times, a Landmark Community Newspapers publication.
He is retired from being self-employed as a landscape designer, horticulturist and nursery stock farmer for 25 years (1974-1999). He was an elected official in the City of
Kevin was appointed by Governor Ehrlich on September 7th, 2004, to the “Bay Restoration Fund Advisory Committee” (09/07/2004 – 06/30/2005) and was additionally assigned to the “Best Available Technologies” Workgroup and the OSDS Subcommittee.
The Carroll County Board of Commissioners (CCBOC) also appointed him to the Carroll County Environmental Advisory Council on September 23rd, 2004 (09/23/2004 – 07/05/2006). He served as Chair until December 14, 2005.
He was appointed to the Carroll County Right To Farm Agriculture Reconciliation Committee by the CCBOC on July 22nd, 2003 and elected Chair of the Committee on November 29th, 2004 (07/22/2003 – 05/16/2005).
On November 23rd, 2004, the CCBOC appointed Kevin to the Route 140 Blue Ribbon Panel – Westminster Bypass. (11/23/2004 – 06/16/2005)
He was first elected to the Westminster City Council in May of 1999 and served as the Mayor of Westminster from May 2001 until May 16th, 2005.
Kevin served on the Maryland Municipal League’s Legislative Committee in 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. He served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Carroll County Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League for five years (12/07/1999 – 05/16/2005).
Kevin served on the Maryland Municipal League Board of Directors annually for five consecutive years, from June 2000 to May 2005. He graduated from the University of Maryland Academy for Excellence in Local Government in June 2001.
Kevin attended Carroll County Public Schools from 1959 through graduation from
Kevin has taught design and horticulture classes for various institutions from 1979 through 1993, including C.E.T.A., Federated Garden Clubs, the
He was a guest horticultural expert for Stu Kerr's radio talk show, "The Garden Club", on WCBM several times in 1989 and 1990.
He has served on a number of state and county advisory boards including; the Carroll County Landscape Manual Committee (1987 – 1989), the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forestry Board (1988 – 1991),
Kevin served as an election judge for the Carroll County Board of Election Supervisors (1990-2000). He was a member of the Maryland Nurserymen's Association (1976 – 1989). He is a member of Grace Lutheran Church (10/25/1998), the Westminster Fire Department (01/05/2001), the Carroll County Chapter of the NAACP (01/2001), a volunteer with the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County (1995), Carroll County Red Cross Disaster Action Team (11/2001) and serves on the Board of Junction (a community drug rehabilitation outreach facility) (10/05/2000), the Westminster Town Center Corporation (06/12/2001 – 05/16/2005), Historical Society of Carroll County (11/08/2001 – 11/13/2003) and the Westminster Cemetery Board (01/2000 – 05/16/2005). He is an Honorary Board Member of the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation (05/2004).
Please feel free to email him at kdayhoff AT carr.org or kevindayhoff AT gmail.com
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