It didn’t take long to find it. I spotted it in the alley — shiny, sharp, and built to last.
Not much different from any other screw, yet special in its own way. I dropped it into a new jar.
I started this hardware jar on January 1, 2025, after a series of nails and screws on streets and driveways around Bolton Hill and the city punctured my car tires. This was the collection at the end of last year — 495 grams of near-misses and bad intentions.
Before Canada’s smoke disrupted those crisp, pleasant late spring days when neither heat nor air conditioning were needed, seasonal sounds of the neighborhood drifted through open windows.
A community of refugees from Afghanistan, brought to this country after the U.S. military withdrawal in 2021, is living in Reservoir Hill just a short walk north between Bolton Hill and Druid Hill Park. They will display and sell handmade items on March 5 at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church.
My friends in Ukraine are getting ready for the winter and keeping their fighting spirits. Folks are buying portable stoves, power banks and generators. It promises to be a difficult season.
After eight months of planning and hard work, residents of the 100 Block of W. Lanvale Street celebrated the completion of their tree planting and tree well expansion project on May 14.
Bolton Hill Garden Club plant and garden shed sale is back, Saturday, April 23.
In her day job, Katia Pokhodnya works from her Bolton Hill home for the Securities and Exchange Commission. She responds to whistleblowers – sometimes brave, aggrieved men and women willing to report corporate wrongdoing or fraud.
Calling all Bolton Hill “girls” (But no men, please)!
What could possibly be more fun than Bolton Hill’s historic annual outdoor fall celebration Festival on the Hill?
Neighborhoods come together for summer picnics, concerts in nearby parks
