by Ty the Dog I, like many of my friends, am enamored of cars. Of course, I don’t drive, but my best buddy does and when he decided to go […]
Archives for August 2012
What I Did This Summer: Fly Fishing the West
by Susan Crudgington Before I went on my summer vacation this year, I had to go to school. And practice for hundreds of hours. I couldn’t go and embarrass the […]
What I Did This Summer: A Diplomatic Welcome in Malta
by Mary Beth Ray As you walk past 4501 29th Street, the scent of rosemary hints at the Mediterranean. The red and white flag with the small cross reveals its […]
What I Did This Summer: Farmer-To-Farmer Volunteer in Rural Ghana
by Jan Buresh This summer, I traveled to Ghana where the countryside is lush, with few roads, basic housing, and generous people, as a Farmer-To-Farmer volunteer in a USAID program. […]
A Stream Runs Under It: Restoring the Broad Branch Tributary
by Steve Saari Watershed Protection Specialist District Department of the Environment If all goes according to plan, Forest Hills will have a new neighbor by next spring – a new […]
Coming Up: Green Living Expo at UDC
by Ken Terzian Mark your calendars for the 4th annual Green Living Expo DC on Saturday, Sept. 8, from 10am to 4pm, at the UDC Courtyard (just outside the Van […]
Back To School: Building Better Public Schools
by Marlene Berlin Gone – Irving Stern, a Siemens Award Winning teacher, started the computer science program at Wilson, and recruited girls. (My daughter was one of them.) Gone – […]
Meet Your Neighbors: Free-Speech Champion Mary Beth Tinker
by Carolyn Jacobson Those of us who live in Forest Hills can boast that some very important people live here. But how many of us are aware that we have […]
The College Process: A View From The Beginning
By Polly Terzian I am a rising senior at the National Cathedral School. I am very active in my school community as a school newspaper reporter, a member of student […]
Mary Cheh’s School Readiness Tour
Our representative on the DC Council, Mary Cheh, has been visiting our ward’s schools this week, checking for “everything from missing books to broken air conditioners.” School starts on August […]