A reminder and invitation from Hearst Elementary: Come to Hearst’s Spring E-Cycle, Bicycle Swap and Used Book Sale! Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Are you wondering […]
Archives for May 2013
Azaleas, Bricks And Serendipity: A Carolinian Walks the Neighborhood
by Lee Armfield Cannon Before I showed up in Forest Hills with my car loaded with clothes, all I had seen of the neighborhood was the wobbly Webcam view out […]
Neighborhood Farmers Markets Return
Wandering the neighborhood last Saturday, we spotted the UDC farmers market back up and running on the wide brick sidewalk outside the David A. Clarke School of Law (4200 Connecticut). […]
Plant Exchange: Give Plants, Get Plants Right Here
Got plants? Need plants? Introducing the Forest Hills Plant Exchange, for those who want to give away perfectly good plants they no longer need for their gardens, and those who […]
Think Outside the Sandbox: Forest Hills Playground Design
by Marlene Berlin They’ve collected the community’s ideas. Now the design phase of the new Forest Hills Playground is under way. The space has the potential to incorporate features that […]
High-Rise Life: #1 Renter Complaint
by Barbara Cline Which one of the complaints listed below represented the largest number of client intake cases for the Office of the Tenant Advocate (OTA) in FY 2012? 1) […]
Forest Hills In WSJ
Check out this Wall Street Journal article about the white-hot DC housing market. The Forest Hills home of Jackie and Tony Dobranski is featured in a slideshow and in a […]
Backyard Wildlife: Turkey In The Garden
Neighbor Jane Solomon writes: I have two backyard wildlife sightings for the Connection. The first was a regular visitor over the winter. This lovely male rufous-sided towhee would pop up […]
Food Trucks In Forest Hills
by Tracy Johnke ‘Twas the day before Thanksgiving, and I had a problem. A dinner guest who had always provided the most delectable desserts had called to say he couldn’t […]
CapitalSpace: An Unjustly Neglected DC Parks Plan
John Henderson President, Green Spaces for DC The CapitalSpace Plan, issued in 2010, documents the first comprehensive examination of parkland undertaken for the District in over 40 years. Preparation of […]