Did you know? When a resident of a single-family home wants to throw out an old couch, the DC Department of Public Works will come and collect it for free. […]
Neighborhood in the News: HUD investigates rents DC landlords charge voucher holders; More water outage impacts; ‘Driving Dangerously’
Nearly a year ago, we wrote: As recently as Presidents Day, 4801 Connecticut was advertising its one-bedroom apartments to prospective renters for $1,700 per month. According to a Washington Post […]
Photos: Rock Creek after the rain, and a driver’s close call with a falling tree
by Marlene Berlin I hiked Rock Creek Park on Sunday to see the creek swollen by rain, but my first encounter was with a driver on Ridge Road who had […]
Save the trees! At three local parks, volunteers are doing that and more – by attacking invasive weeds.
One day over Martin Luther King weekend, a few expert Weed Warriors and a large number of less-experienced volunteers gathered in the wooded area behind the Politics and Prose parking […]
DC Water finds cause of Friday’s Wards 3/4 outage: It “should not have had a detrimental impact”
DC Water now knows what caused parts of Wards 3 and 4 to lose water service or pressure on Friday, January 19th. And even the agency seems surprised. DC Water’s […]
DC Water doesn’t know why Wards 3 & 4 lost water service last Friday. That’s unusual.
Update: The cause is known, but questions remain. Here’s the latest. by Marlene Berlin DC Water does not know what caused residents and businesses in parts of Wards 3 and […]
DC agencies are undergoing their annual performance reviews. You can add your feedback, too.
by Marlene Berlin Tucked between the holiday season and the summer season is DC budget season. It begins in January with DC Council performance oversight hearings of DC agencies, continues […]
Photos: A long-awaited snowy day
by Marlene Berlin We just got our most substantial snowfall in two years. I wouldn’t have missed walking in it for anything. I set out for Van Ness via Rock […]
Business in Brief: Restaurant Week; Bread Furst, the book; Uptown Theater latest
For a limited time: Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington’s Winter Restaurant Week is under way through Sunday, January 21st. The Van Ness/Forest Hills restaurants taking part are Buck’s Fishing and Camping, […]
ANC 3F Jan. 16 agenda: CM Robert White; Soapstone sewer update
DC Water’s periodic, opt-in email updates about the Soapstone Valley sewer rehabilitation project can be described as spare. Previous updates might list upcoming activities, like this: Week of January 2, […]