Bolton Hill

It had been about three days since the first round of snow stopped falling on Saturday, and Greg Baranoski had fallen twice while walking along the unshoveled sidewalks in his Bolton Hill neighborhood. This called for a good old-fashioned public shaming. Baranoski, a 49-year-old designer, trudged through the streets with pad in hand, jotting down the street numbers of all residences with sidewalks that had gone "unshoveled, unsalted, untouched." He posted the information on the community association's online bulletin board, creating a "Sidewalk Hall of Shame" that included 39 homes on Park Avenue and Lanvale, Bolton and Laurens streets.

After seven years running his own kitchen at Salt , his Upper Fells Point restaurant that put duck-fat fries, Wagyu sliders and changing menus on Baltimore's food map, Jason Ambrose is stepping aside. Ambrose is turning over Salt's day-to-day kitchen operations to Brian Lavin, who joined the Salt team in 2010 and has been the restaurant's sous-chef for about a year and a half, according to Ambrose. "I made a decision I was going to take a step out," said Ambrose. "Brian came to me as a line cook with a tremendous interest in food.

"Every community needs a cafe," John Houser III says in his review of On the Hill Cafe, a chalkboard-menu mainstay in Bolton Hill. John decides that Bolton Hill has got just the cafe it deserves, but you'll have to read his review to see if he means that sarcastically. If you could airlift any cafe in Baltimore into your neighborhood, which one would it be? Here's the review of On the Hill Cafe .

A Baltimore City police officer was taken to a local hospital for smoke inhalation after he attempted to alert residents about a two-alarm fire in the Bolton Hill neighborhood Saturday afternoon. Fire department spokesman Capt. Roman Clark said the officer suffered minor injuries. He was treated at the scene and transported to the hospital as a precautionary measure. The blaze in the 1800 block of Eutaw Place began around 2:30 p.m. and was placed under control about two hours later, he said.

Baltimore homicide detectives have charged 25-year-old James Berry in a 2011 triple shooting in Bolton Hill that killed a 21-year-old man.  Berry, described by one police commander as a "high roller" because of his suspected connection to violence, was taken into custody in the 1100 block of E. 33rd St. on Wednesday and booked on charges of murder and attempted murder.  The shooting killed 21-year-old Angelo Fitzgerald and injured two others....

Police are investigating the death of a cancer patient who was found dead early Saturday in a Bolton Hill dwelling, said Baltimore City Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright. The man's name was being withheld pending notification of relatives, and the cause of death had not yet been determined. Firefighters responding to a private fire alarm system at a house in the 1700 block of Eutaw Place about 5:40 a.m. found a hot interior and a sprinkler system that had been activated after all four burners of a stove and the oven were turned on. Cartwright said the combination of the heat and water created steam that burned the face of the man, who used a wheelchair.

A 22-year-old man was shot overnight in Bolton Hill, police said, and he remained in critical condition after surgery. The shooting took place shortly after midnight on the 1700 block of Park Avenue, a police spokeswoman said. An officer who went to the scene found the man outside a building with a gunshot wound to the body. Paramedics arrived at the scene and stabilized the victim before taking him to a hospital, the spokeswoman said. nick.madigan@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Baltimore City police are investigating an early morning shooting Thursday in Bolton Hill that left two people with minor injuries. Investigators have not released identities of the victims and stress the investigation is in the preliminary stages. A woman, about to enter a residence in the 300 block McMechen Street at 4:30 a.m., was approached by a van. As she spoke to a man in the van, another vehicle pulled up and fired at them. She was struck in the thumb and he was struck in the arm. She jumped into the van and was dropped off at an area hospital for treatment.

One person was seriously injured Sunday when a moped or dirt bike the person was riding was struck by a vehicle near the intersection of Fulton and North avenues, city police said. Police spokesman Kevin Brown said preliminary reports indicated two people were riding the moped or dirt bike when it was hit around 11:30 a.m., and that one was in "very serious condition. " Further details were not immediately available. —Timothy B. Wheeler

A 29-year-old man was shot in the leg in an attempted robbery on Thursday, Baltimore police said. The victim, who police did not identify, told investigators that at about 4:35 p.m. on Thursday, a black man in his 20s wearing a gray jacket approached him on the 300 block of McMechen St. in the Bolton Hill neighborhood. The man informed the victim he aimed to rob him and tried to, prompting a struggle. The victim pushed away and was shot in the leg. Police said the suspect fled while the victim ran to the 1700 block of Eutaw Place, where someone contacted police.

If indecent exposure laws aren't enough to give adventurous Pimlico infield visitors pause, here's another disincentive: The famous race course lies inside of one of Baltimore's statistical hot spots for gonorrhea. Just in time for the end of national STI Awareness Month (and, unintentionally, in time for the start of the Triple Crown at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday), staff recently added a set of maps to the city's STD page, showing Baltimore ZIP codes' rates for chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2012.

Situated in the city's Bolton Hill neighborhood is a relatively new development of brick townhouses solidly placed among the late Victorian and early-20th-century structures that once housed the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Woodrow Wilson and, more recently, pianist Leon Fleisher. This little enclave within an enclave is called Lions Park Fountains. The two-story houses hug the periphery of an open, brick-paved courtyard with benches and fountains. Large statues of lions guard the entrance to the 1980 development.

Anne G. Karlsen, a registered nurse who had worked for the Baltimore County Health Department, died Jan. 25 of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 86. Anne Bradford Grafflin was born in Baltimore and spent her early years on Wilson Street in Bolton Hill, before moving in 1934 to the Dixon Hill neighborhood in Mount Washington. After graduating from Western High School in 1945, she attended Baltimore Business College and later that year went to work as a mail sorter in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's downtown freight office.

If you want a taste of the Gilded Age, just plunk down $450,000, the asking price for a Baltimore townhouse once owned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author who gave us "The Great Gatsby" and other classics lived in Towson and Baltimore while wife Zelda was being treated for her mental health problems. Now the four-bedroom townhouse at 1307 Park Avenue in Bolton Hill is up for sale. Here's what the University of Baltimore's Literary Heritage says about his time here: "In 1932, Fitzgerald brought [Zelda]

It might lack the cachet of Long Island Sound, where novelist S. Scott Fitzgerald set "The Great Gatsby. " But anyone with a spare $450,000 can live in a piece of literary history - specifically the 3,600-square-foot Bolton Hill town home where Fitzgerald lived briefly. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom town home at 1307 Park Ave. is listed by Long & Foster Realtors and went on the market last Saturday. A plaque outside the residence indicates that it once housed Fitzgerald, who stayed there from 1933 until 1935 while his mercurial wife, Zelda, was being treated for schizophrenia at the nearby Sheppard Pratt Hospital.

More than a year ago, police suspected that James Berry III had killed a man during a triple shooting in Bolton Hill, and they presented their evidence to prosecutors. At the time, the case was not deemed strong enough to merit arresting Berry, once a promising boxer with Olympic dreams. It wasn't until last month that detectives got the green light to charge the 25-year-old with murder, after another triple shooting - which left two men dead - focused police attention on him again.

Bolton Hill community leaders pleaded with Baltimore zoning officials Tuesday to prevent a fraternal lodge from holding late-night parties, saying that the raucous gatherings are destroying the character of the neighborhood. City Councilman William H. Cole IV, who represents the area, clutched a sheaf of fliers for Hiram Grand Lodge events that featured scantily clad women, promises of "top shelf liquor" and names such as "Love & Lust Pre-Valentine's Day event. " "We're asking you to end these activities because it's killing a great neighborhood," said Cole.

The attorney for a man accused of raping a woman and strangling her to death in her Bolton Hill home more than 20 years ago told a Baltimore jury during his opening statements that his client had sex with the victim but that the incident went no further. Kevin Gerald Robinson is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Lisa Barselou, a 26-year-old whose body was found beaten and submerged in the bathtub of her home in November 1989. Nicholas Panteleakis, Robinson's lawyer, told the jury that Robinson and Barselou had consensual sex, and that his client's DNA, found on her body, could have been there up to five days before she was killed.

A 29-year-old man was shot in the leg in an attempted robbery on Thursday, Baltimore police said. The victim, who police did not identify, told investigators that at about 4:35 p.m. on Thursday, a black man in his 20s wearing a gray jacket approached him on the 300 block of McMechen St. in the Bolton Hill neighborhood. The man informed the victim he aimed to rob him and tried to, prompting a struggle. The victim pushed away and was shot in the leg. Police said the suspect fled while the victim ran to the 1700 block of Eutaw Place, where someone contacted police.

Two people were reported robbed in the same area, and around the same time, Monday night in downtown Baltimore, police confirmed.  It was unclear whether the same group of suspects was involved, a police spokesman said.  In the first incident, a 32-year-old woman said she was walking on the east side of the first block of Hopkins Place at about 10 p.m. when she thrown to the ground from behind by two suspects, believed to be women. They demanded her phone, and ended up taking her purse, police said.  About 30 minutes later, a 17-year-old male said he was walking in the 100 block of W. Lombard St. after getting off of the light rail at Howard and Baltimore streets, and was waiting for a bus, police said.