“Community. It’s more than a word; it’s a feeling that overwhelms when people choose to spend their valuable time to help.” That’s what Mt. Royal Elementary/Middle School Principal Steve Skeen said after he sent out a cry for help with shoveling snow after Baltimore City Public Schools announced the end of snow days and re-opening the schools.
Let’s say you were a young Bolton Hill couple expecting a baby when plans to reconstruct Druid Lake first came into view. By now, if all went to plan, your child could be about to finish college.
The Bolton Hill area now has a new way to share food, reduce waste and strengthen community care. Bmore Community Fridge Network (BCFN) has opened a community fridge and pantry at Woofotel, a pet care facility located at 863 N. Howard St. The fridge is open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., making it the closest and most accessible location to Bolton Hill.
Nearly every autumn since 1965, Bolton Hill neighbors have gathered for an all-day celebration, our Festival on the Hill. Held in the 1300 block of Bolton Street and the 200 block of W. Lanvale Street, the festival offers food, crafts and activities for folks of all ages. It benefits those neighborhood organizations that sponsor booths. This year, the Oct. 4 event’s additional proceeds will support the neighborhood Arts in the Parks music program.
After more than half a century in the neighborhood, Estep Brothers Funeral Home has put its historic Eutaw Place location on the market for sale. “The building, not the business, is for sale,” said Jonathan Hibner, who is the funeral home’s director. He said a continuous and seemingly insoluble parking limitation is behind the decision to try to sell after half a century at the corner of Eutaw and West Lanvale St., on Bolton Hill’s southwest corner.
Bolton Hill’s newest food establishment – a Mexican grill akin to Chipotle – will open in the Sav-a-Lot strip mall on McMechen Street this fall. It’s the latest addition to the neighborhood from the Ranjha family of Ellicott City that bought Maryland Sav-a-Lot grocery outlets nearly four years ago.
After 33 years of dedicated ownership ended in July, Bolton Hill Grocery (BHG) has embarked on an exciting chapter under its new owners, Ajay Kumar Pradhan and his wife, Manisha. Hailing from Owings Mills, Ajay comes from a background in the private sector but has always harbored a passion for entrepreneurship. That passion led him on a search for the perfect venture—and it brought him to Bolton Hill Grocery.
It was a diminutive plaque, scarcely noticeable above the grass in a corner of the upper Park Avenue median. The buried block of concrete to which it was affixed had been dinged and gouged by the wear of roughly 90 years, but the tarnished plaque itself was very much intact.
💡 Hey, neighbor: have you got a light?💡
✂️ Artscape is scheduled, earlier and shortened ✂️
⚖️ State Center settlement is a small step toward redevelopment of the site ⚖️
♿ City agrees to spend more to make some sidewalks suitable for wheelchairs ♿
Baltimore Unity Hall, which opened 30 months ago determined to reduce barriers in Central West Baltimore, is entering a new phase focused on the arts, community outreach and, especially, fundraising, its new director says.
