Saturday, Nov. 7 – Time to get outside on a beautiful Baltimore day and start the "O Say Can You See SoBo?" Scavenger Hunt, which runs through Sunday at 4 p.m. This post has links to everything you need to know about the search for 26 artistic, historic, or architectural "hidden gems" scattered across the … Continue reading SoBo Scavenger Hunt Is On! →

How well do you know SoBo? Find out this weekend, Nov. 7-8. Time once again for some community-wide, COVID-safe, “let’s get outside together” fun for everyone on the South Baltimore peninsula. No chalk needed, just an eagerness to explore our neighborhoods and test your knowledge of their many quirky “hidden-in-plain-sight” treasures. And this time there … Continue reading Join the Peninsula Scavenger Hunt! →

‘Post-Its’ is a weekly collection of community news and useful information for residents of the South Baltimore Peninsula. https://videopress.com/v/dFnJCvt3?preloadContent=metadata In-person voting – the early kind – began Monday, Oct. 26, across Baltimore city. Long lines formed in the morning on Day 1 at the closest polling location for much of the peninsula: Dempsey’s Restaurant at … Continue reading ‘Post-Its’: Voting, Recycling Continue →

Remember the fun ChalkItUpSoBo and SoBo1000K community events in May? We're sponsoring another peninsula-wide COVID-friendly event the weekend of November 7. This time it's a contest with PRIZES! Details to come. Stay tuned!

In just over one hour this morning (Oct. 20), a new lighted ‘star-cross’ was installed atop the steeple of St. Mary Star of the Sea church on Riverside Ave., visible once again across much of the peninsula. The previous star was damaged during a storm in April and removed from the steeple. Father Josh Laws, … Continue reading New ‘Star-Cross’ Rises →

A weekly collection of community news and useful information for residents of the South Baltimore Peninsula. High-altitude repair work continues on St. Mary Star of the Sea church at the corner of Riverside Ave. and Gittings St. in preparation for the return of the iconic lighted star-cross damaged in an April storm. Father Josh Laws, … Continue reading ‘Post-Its’: Reopenings, Repairs, and ‘No Candy Here’ →

A majority of people on the South Baltimore peninsula are taking the advice of city public health officials and sitting out Halloween this year – at least the traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating part – due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Facebook poll. Some residents, however, are still planning to take to the … Continue reading Poll: Residents Scale Back Trick-or-Treating →

‘Post-Its’ is a weekly collection of community news and useful information for residents of the South Baltimore peninsula. One ballot drop box is already in place near our neighborhood for those voting by mail this year. You can find it near Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Just take Conway St. from the Inner Harbor straight … Continue reading ‘Post-Its’: Of Ballots and Blessings →

‘Post-Its’ is a weekly collection of community news and useful information for residents of the South Baltimore Peninsula. Roof razed at Cross Street Market  (the S. Charles St. end) to make way for the Watershed crab house. About one-fifth of the Market’s roof is gone, temporarily, as construction ramps up on the seafood restaurant that … Continue reading ‘Post-Its’: Roof Off, Street Slowed →

Another loss from the COVID-19 pandemic (at least temporarily) is curbside pickup of residential recycling in Baltimore. On Sept. 14, Baltimore City Department of Public Works cancelled recycling pickup across the city. Residents now have to take their recycling to Community Recycling Centers until at least the end of October. The recycling center for the … Continue reading Recycling Is On Us For Now →