New Morning Farm market’s back-to-school discount is still on: Students with an ID can get a 15% discount on their entire purchase. The offer is good during the Saturday and […]
Archives for August 2013
More Modern Hearst School Greets Students
by Elizabeth Wiener Staff writer, The Current Newspapers After a last-minute rush of construction activity, newly renovated Mann and Hearst elementary schools reopened to about 300 students each Monday morning […]
More Traffic Enforcement Cameras Going In
by Marlene Berlin In the coming year there will be an expansion of photo enforcement at stop signs and unsignalized crosswalks. Cameras will track cars that run through stop signs […]
The Fox That Wasn’t
Weeks before DC’s tiniest panda made the news with his/her surprise arrival, a Forest Hills neighbor had an unexpected encounter with another, now infamous, resident of the National Zoo. As […]
Neighbors in the News: Boat Race And Bus Tour
Forest Hills neighbors make the news, by boat and by bus: “Out Of Sight Dragons” is their name. “We Have Vision” is their motto. They are DC’s own dragon boat […]
ON-ON: The Mysterious World of Hashing
by Pat Davies From time to time you might notice small piles of white or colored flour around Forest Hills, as well as mysterious chalk marks in the form of […]
Yuma Bikeshare Station ISO New Home
Now you see it. Now you don’t. Capital Bikeshare installed the station at Connecticut and Yuma just four months ago. Yesterday, CaBi removed the station for “adjacent building construction […]
What Do The Rising DCPS Test Scores Really Mean?
by Marlene Berlin After my Viewpoint in the Northwest Current about the importance of putting the public back in public education, David Bardin asked me what impact I thought former […]
UDC To Lease More Apartments Near Campus
by Brady Holt Current Staff Writer The University of the District of Columbia is preparing to lease up to 15 apartment units for its students in a building across Connecticut […]
Cheh Sees Maintenance Problems In School Tour
by Elizabeth Wiener Current Staff Writer It’s a long punch list, with a lot of holes. Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh’s customary August tour of schools has turned […]