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 […]
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Business in Brief: Call Your Mother opens in Forest Hills, Days Inn is renovating, 100 years of the Avalon
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 […]
Backyard Nature: January provided a warm welcome to the area’s early bloomers
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 […]
DDOT considers narrower bike lanes, more parking and dropoff spaces for next Connecticut Ave. safety study concept
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 […]
How DC’s oldest Boy Scout troop built a new bridge in Linnean Park
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 […]
Neighborhood in the News: Idris Elba was here (really!); a Whittle School landlord suit dismissed
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 […]
The Forest Hills Connection comments policy
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 […]
Business in Brief: Laid-off Burger King workers got no warning; Bagels galore; MOM’s Van Ness “Coming 2023”
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 […]
Opinion: Nine ways to make the Connecticut Ave. redesign better for the people who live, shop and work here
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, […]
ANC 3F Jan. 17 agenda: New term, new team
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 […]