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Many of our neighbors go all out for Halloween. But few blocks do it up like Chesterfield Place in Forest Hills. The decorations are massive, including inflatables stretching two stories high. A deejay serenades trick-or-treaters with spooky music. One participant projects classic scary movies onto one of the houses. Scariest of all? According to resident […]
The excessive rain and humidity of the past month has been rough on trees and roads. But it’s been absolutely perfect for mushrooms. Usually the soaking rains of fall are what coaxes these fungi to sprout in our tree boxes, yards and Rock Creek Park. The park is where I found these fascinating specimens. – […]
by Marjorie Rachlin Some plants and shrubs thrive in the summer heat, and front yards in Forest Hills are using them in various ways. I drove around and took photos of some of the more interesting ones. We’ve forgotten that it was Lady Bird Johnson’s Beautification Campaign in the 1960s that got a lot of […]
8/3 update: It’s going to take more than two weeks. DDOT tells WTOP, “The work being done is to repair the roadway infrastructure that was damaged by the storm, including repairing embankments and culverts.” The new estimate for the completion of repairs: before the end of August. A day after the July 25th downpour and […]
by Marlene Berlin We’ve had more than our fair share of torrential rains in recent days. And on July 25th, our own Broad Branch Stream became a dangerous torrent itself. WTOP’s Dave Dildine shared this footage on Twitter: Broad Branch Road. Again, this is a road — but it is not one to be driven […]
$23,500 down, $46,500 to go. Van Ness Main Street (VNMS) will receive a special projects award of $23,500 from ANC 3F for the first of three planned public art installations. The commissioners voted on and announced the award at their June 19th meeting. This funding is a matching grant and will be awarded when Van […]
by Marlene Berlin It had been raining heavily at times on Sunday, and around 2 p.m. I was driving home on Rock Creek Parkway after dropping off Jim, my husband, at the airport. I wondered if I could get through on Broad Branch Road to Brandywine Street given the National Weather Service flood warnings. Usually […]
by Marlene Berlin Nothing gets the neighbors together like a good old-fashioned power outage. A little after 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 23rd, a group of neighbors, including myself, gathered on Albemarle Street between 30th and 32nd Streets to discuss the outage. We witnessed a Pepco workman checking a switch on top of a telephone […]
We are spoiled for libraries in this part of DC, located within easy distance of the DC Public Libraries in Chevy Chase, Tenleytown and Cleveland Park. We’ve been especially spoiled during the Cleveland Park library renovation because of the temporary location in Van Ness at 4340 Connecticut. This good thing is coming to an end. […]
by Marlene Berlin On the day of our “big” March snowstorm, I went out around 3 p.m. to shovel our sidewalk on 30th Street. Other people had the same idea. I met our new neighbor on the corner of Brandywine and 30th. Then I walked on to check out the neighborhood. As on 30th, some […]
