by David Bardin The venerable Committee of 100 for the Federal City has announced through its chairman, George Clark (of Forest Hills), that one of its five 2012 Vision Awards […]
Archives for May 2012
Council Speeds Money For Deal-Reno Restoration
By Elizabeth Wiener Current Staff Writer The D.C. Council is speeding up restoration of the historic Reno School as well as an addition linking the structure to Alice Deal Middle […]
Ask the Tree Expert: Healthy Diversity
By Bill Eck ISA Certified Arborist MA-4657A Who decides which kinds of city trees to plant and where? And how do they make their decisions? I did a little […]
High-Rise Life: Rent Control 101
by Barbara Cline Rent control is one of the city’s longest-established and most significant policies for maintaining affordable housing in the city. Our Forest Hills high-rise community contains over a […]
Magical Day At The Playground
by Alexandra Chalupa The last Sunday morning in April, the Forest Hills Playground on Chesapeake Street was magical. The weather was perfect and the park was full of families with […]
Meet Your Neighbors: Aviva Kempner
by Carolyn Jacobson We welcome Aviva Kempner, a longtime DC resident, to Forest Hills. The documentary filmmaker arrived in June of 2011 from the hinterlands of Jenifer Street in Chevy […]
From The Editor’s Desk
by Marlene Berlin Well, I should not have worried about having enough contributions for the second issue, and I hate to admit, I have already started worrying about the third. […]
Forging A Connection: A Note from FHCA
by Denise Warner President, Forest Hills Citizens Association Who knew that I would meet some very interesting folks from Europe living across the street? How did I learn that there […]
New Zoning Regulations: Don’t Be Too Detached
Marjorie Rachlin has done a lot of sleuthing on behalf of Forest Hills Connection into the current effort to rewrite decades-old zoning regulations. Here’s her take on how this will […]
Aging in Place: Mental Health
Roughly one-sixth of Forest Hills residents were 65 or older during the 2010 Census. They and their families may someday benefit from a new, nearby training program for mental health […]