The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our lives for over a year in countless ways. For many of us, our workplace suddenly moved inside the four walls of our home. Now, as pre-pandemic life is gradually returning, the Peninsula Post is taking the pulse of the peninsula to see what our work lives might look like … Continue reading SoBo Survey: What’s Next for Where We Work?
In true Baltimore fashion, each building is unique: funded, constructed, installed, and stocked in its own way. Nine Little Free Libraries (pictured here) served the peninsula in March 2021. Since then, two additional structures have appeared, one in Solo Gibbs Park, corner of Henrietta and Sharp streets, and another at Federal Hill Preparatory School on … Continue reading Random Acts of Book Kindness Abound
The Peninsula Post's second newspaper edition hit the streets on Friday, Aug. 6. With our second print edition of the Peninsula Post, the South Baltimore peninsula now has a regular newspaper to call its own. Thanks to the enthusiastic response to our prototype issue in March – including many offers of support from residents and … Continue reading Peninsula Post Now a Bimonthly Paper
Young Wyatt Johnson is about to get a closeup look at a helmet from firefighter J. McCarthy with an assist from mom (Page Harrison) and dad (Austin Johnson) at Henry Street Park. Meeting and greeting neighbors, firefighters, and police officers was the order of the evening on Monday, Aug. 3, during National Night Out events … Continue reading A Great ‘National Night Out’
NEW COLUMN: “AROUND THE PENINSULA” Welcome to our first “Around the Peninsula” column, a monthly grab bag of short news items of interest happening in South Baltimore. The surprising, the fun, and the random all have a home here. This month’s column utterly failed the “random” requirement. This was not our fault. No theme was … Continue reading The Musical Month of May
Tunnels were cut into the hill and the slopes to the south, all eventually abandoned and forgotten. In 1992, workers renovating Federal Hill Park discovered a network of underground tunnels that were quickly sealed from public view. RK&K photo. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in our print newspaper edition on March 12, 2021. As … Continue reading Deep Dive into the Tunnels of Federal Hill
South Baltimore Little League’s opening day in Locust Point. (Credit: Mary Braman) The playing fields and waterways of South Baltimore sprang to life this week as athletes of all ages kicked off the spring sports season. From Little League in Locust Point to volleyball at Rash Field and sailing from the Key Highway waterfront, the … Continue reading Spring Sports Kick Off on Peninsula
The upper half of the “g” for the Domino Sugars sign towers over Gable’s senior solutions consultant Jack Lunkenheimer. Next stop: the paint room. The last letter of the iconic Domino Sugars sign over Baltimore’s harbor came down on March 16. Work on the replacement letters continues a month later at Gable, the manufacturing site … Continue reading New Domino Sign Taking Shape
Editor’s Note – This is the second in our “SoBo Made” series about local products and the people who make them on the South Baltimore peninsula. Our part of the city has long been a manufacturing and production hub. Although much of that work vanished years ago, that creative and industrious spirit endures here in … Continue reading New Dessert Baker Delivers the Goodies
Last spring, the residents of South Baltimore – from Sharp-Leadenhall to Locust Point – took to their sidewalks in an explosion of color and creativity during the “Chalk It Up SoBo Sidewalk Chalk Challenge.” The free-form weekend event was so much fun and the chalk art so amazing that the South Baltimore Peninsula Post and … Continue reading ‘Chalk It Up SoBo’ Returns: April 23-25
