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Neighborhood August to-do list: Learn about trees, frogs and the moon, and picnic like a Hillwood heiress

August 5, 2022 Leave a Comment

Forest Hills of DC earns national quality award for improving care (Sponsored)

August 4, 2022 4 Comments

A Ward 3 guide to back-to-school immunizations

August 2, 2022 2 Comments

Backyard Nature: Water striders chat, caterpillars attack, and bullfrogs duel

August 1, 2022 3 Comments

More candidates, more clipboards: We’re now in DC election season, part 2

July 28, 2022 1 Comment

Soapstone sewer project update: Stream restoration under way; noise complaints, and no sewer pipe work for at least 60 days

July 27, 2022 9 Comments

See DDOT’s block-by-block concepts for upper Connecticut Avenue safety improvements and bike lanes

July 25, 2022 3 Comments

Local Happenings

Thu 11

Full Moon Gathering @ Broad Branch Stream

August 11 @ 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm

Sat 13

New Morning Farm Market

August 13 @ 8:00 am - 1:00 pm

Sat 13

UDC Van Ness Farmers Market

August 13 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Sat 13

Milling Demonstrations at Peirce Mill

August 13 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

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In appreciation of the mayor’s office liaisons who are “here to get stuff done”

Business in Brief: Wegman’s opening; MOM’s Van Ness still happening; 40 years of Calvert Woodley

Run for ANC – and be where “the rubber meets the road on local politics”

Opinion: It’s the mayor, not UDC, who bears responsibility as a volunteer-led Ward 3 food pantry searches for a new home (Corrected)

National Park Service proposes car-free summers on upper Beach Drive

Neighborhood in the News

Neighborhood in the News: Whittle School’s DC campus is shutting down; Van Ness food pantry needs new home

Business

Acacia Food & Wine closing; Flavor Garden now open

Kids and Schools

Hey, kids and teens: Sundays this summer, you can help Connecticut Avenue’s pollinator gardens grow

Murch “Blue and Gold” EXCLUSIVE: Teachers share their embarrassing grade school moments

Services

MPD has a new officer managing the Second District public service area that includes Van Ness

Peirce Mill

Peirce Mill’s longtime miller, Jeanne Minor, retires

Backyard Nature

Backyard Nature: A slithery surprise at the Tregaron bullfrog pond, and the not-entirely-green green tree frogs at Linnean Stream

Archives Spotlight: August 2015

The first school in Forest Hills, DC opened 150 years ago

How DC Water repaired a 1908 sewer pipe in Soapstone Valley

High-Rise Life: When renters must relocate

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