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The DC Council’s annual oversight hearings on DC agencies are under way. You, too, can weigh in.

February 7, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Marlene Berlin The DC Council has started a yearly process that provides us an opportunity to provide feedback on DC government agencies, and shape legislative, policy and budget priorities […]

Filed Under: DC Government, Featured, News

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Business in Brief: Call Your Mother opens in Forest Hills, Days Inn is renovating, 100 years of the Avalon

February 6, 2023 by FHC 1 Comment

At 7 a.m. last Friday, a new Call Your Mother deli opened at 5035 Connecticut Avenue. On Saturday, the crowds descended. Customers were not waiting long. An employee periodically came […]

Filed Under: Business, Business in Brief, Chevy Chase, Featured, Forest Hills, News, Shop & Eat Local, Van Ness

Backyard Nature: January provided a warm welcome to the area’s early bloomers

February 3, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Marlene Berlin January was DC’s warmest in 73 years, and the third warmest on record, according to the Post’s Capital Weather Gang. This might have coaxed some early bloomers […]

Filed Under: Backyard Nature, Featured, Featured Photos, News, Rock Creek Park, Style

DDOT considers narrower bike lanes, more parking and dropoff spaces for next Connecticut Ave. safety study concept

January 31, 2023 by FHC 9 Comments

Early DDOT concepts for a safer Connecticut Avenue included removing all street parking in the stretches between commercial areas. DDOT officials hinted at a January 19th public meeting that the […]

Filed Under: Bike DC, Featured, Getting Around, Metrobus and Rail, News

How DC’s oldest Boy Scout troop built a new bridge in Linnean Park

January 27, 2023 by FHC 3 Comments

by John Burwell One weekend in early January, William Wales, a junior at Jackson-Reed High School, led Boy Scout Troop 100 in building and installing a boardwalk bridge over a […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, News, Parks and Streams, Volunteer in Our Parks

Neighborhood in the News: Idris Elba was here (really!); a Whittle School landlord suit dismissed

January 24, 2023 by FHC 3 Comments

Idris Elba was here. We repeat: IDRIS ELBA WAS HERE. The actor wasn’t in the neighborhood to perform on a TV show (though Elvis Presley pnce was). Or to support […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, Hillwood Museum, Neighborhood in the News, News

The Forest Hills Connection comments policy

January 20, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

Forest Hills Connection moderates all comments, and over the years, we’ve developed some guidelines for what makes it in, and what doesn’t. And after almost eleven years, it’s long past […]

Filed Under: Featured, FHC News, News

Business in Brief: Laid-off Burger King workers got no warning; Bagels galore; MOM’s Van Ness “Coming 2023”

January 19, 2023 by FHC Leave a Comment

Little Red Fox and Burger King are gone. And their departures are a study in contrasts. The owners of Little Red Fox and Sugar Fox announced their intentions several days before […]

Filed Under: Business, Business in Brief, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Featured, Forest Hills, News, Tenleytown, Van Ness

Opinion: Nine ways to make the Connecticut Ave. redesign better for the people who live, shop and work here

January 17, 2023 by FHC 9 Comments

by Livia Bardin Concept C, the officially adopted plan for bicycle lanes in the DDOT Connecticut Avenue Reversible Lane, Safety and Operations Study, is fine for bikes, tough on cars, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Getting Around, News, Opinion

ANC 3F Jan. 17 agenda: New term, new team

January 16, 2023 by FHC 3 Comments

When the new six-seat ANC 3F meets on Tuesday at 7 p.m., we’ll be seeing four new faces on Zoom, and two familiar ones. Incumbents Claudette David and James Tandaric […]

Filed Under: ANC 3F, News

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