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As DCPS students head back to school today, Murch School students are heading into brand new classrooms at their old location, 36th and Davenport Streets. For many, it won’t be their first glimpse of the fully-modernized school. Students got a chance to drop off school supplies and meet their teachers last Friday. And on Saturday, […]
Forest Hills Park’s last picnic in the park concert of the summer is on the last Saturday of this month. Details from Friends of Forest Hills Playground: Join Friends of Forest Hills Playground + The Erich Cabe Team for our last free, all-ages summer concert at the Forest Hills Park amphitheater (3200 block of Brandywine […]
The ribbon-cutting event will begin 30 minutes earlier than previously advertised. Plan to show up at 2:30 p.m. for the ceremony and the festivities. In the two years since the renovation of Murch Elementary began, we’ve heard these two questions quite a bit: 1) Will it be ready in time for the 2018-2019 school year, […]
Van Ness Main Street is inviting everyone to celebrate these dog days of summer: Thursday evenings in August, from 5 to 8 p.m., Van Ness Main Street is sponsoring “Pups on the Patio” happy hours at each of these restaurants: August 9th: Acacia Food & Wine August 16th: Soapstone Market August 23rd: Sfoglina Pasta House […]
From our friends at Friends of Forest Hills Playground: Friends of Forest Hills Playground and the Erich Cabe Team will bring you another free, fun, all-ages concert on Saturday, July 28th at the Forest Hills Park amphitheater (3200 block of Brandywine Street, by the tennis courts). This time we’re bringing you a duo who has […]
An update from Friends of Forest Hills Playground: Friends of Forest Hills Playground + The Erich Cabe Team present: Crush Funk Brass! Forest Hills Park’s Picnic in the Park summer concert series begins on Saturday, June 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. (at 32nd and Chesapeake Streets, by the tennis courts). If you’ve seen the […]
Parents of preschoolers in-bounds at Murch, Janney and other Ward 3 schools have learned over the years that the District’s “universal pre-K” is anything but universal. There’s often more demand than space in their neighborhood school’s pre-K4 classes. And for the three-year-old set, pre-K3 has been non-existent at Ward 3 public elementary and charter schools. […]
When this crossed our inbox we thought, what a marvelous idea. A coalition of local groups is seeking to bridge the generation(s) gap by organizing playdates that children (0-6 years old, though all welcome) and senior citizens can enjoy together. The first is coming up soon: You’re Invited: Children and Seniors Play Together on Friday, […]
by Kim Farmer, Kirsten Metzger Gilbert and Tracy Johnke Friends of Forest Hills Playground Forest Hills Park recently had a multitude of volunteers making much-needed improvements. We’d like to keep the momentum going and see more users of the park and playground volunteer at the many community-building events that Friends of Forest Hills Playground organizes. In addition […]
Here’s a question we’ve been getting a lot: Is the Murch School renovation going to be completed in time for the 2018-2019 school year? Murch’s principal has heard it too. And he has an answer: “Yes!” In an update on the renovation, Principal Chris Cebrzynski says he’s been told work on the building at 36th […]
