Washington Village NewsLocal news for Washington Village (Baltimore, MD) continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Barre Circle raising a stink over cleanup- April 13, 2008 "If you provide that to a neighborhood, it snowballs to where everyone expects the same service" For the past 15 years, proud residents of the once-shoddy Barre Circle neighborhood in Pigtown - many of whom bought their houses from the city for a dollar - have held a cleanup day one Saturday a month. via The Baltimore Sunhttp://www.topix.net/city/baltimore-md-washington-village/2008/04/barre-circle-raising-a-s... Pigtown's Main Street Initiative moves forward after city acquires 4 buildings- April 7, 2008 "I am of the belief that I make a decent living, but I can't afford to live in the Zenith apartments in nearby downtown, paying $1,800 for a ground-level efficiency" After a protracted legal battle, city officials have wrested four storefront buildings along the 700 block of Washington Boulevard in West Baltimore's Pigtown neighborhood from a local property owner, a move ... via Daily Recordhttp://www.topix.net/city/baltimore-md-washington-village/2008/04/pigtowns-main-street-ini... |