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by Marlene Berlin The owner of the Burger King franchise at Van Ness is talking again about closing the location. “Potomac Foods being the last standing Burger King operator in the District, and 40 years of service to your community, it saddens us to have to say goodbye,” wrote Mark James, Potomac’s vice president of […]
Less than a month before a DC-ordered deadline for stormwater mitigation, ANC 3F sent the Van Ness Burger King franchise back to the drawing board. In exchange for a nine-year zoning variance that allows the continued use of the parking lot beyond the drive-thru, Potomac Foods Group agreed in 2018 to repave it with permeable […]
by Marlene Berlin Van Ness is getting an urgent care and primary care clinic – its first since Walgreens closed its pharmacy and walk-in clinic at 4225 Connecticut Avenue in 2015. AllCare Family Medicine and Urgent Care will set up shop at 4340 Connecticut, in a 27,000 square foot space that temporarily housed the Cleveland […]
Lucía Driessen, a 19-year-old who grew up in Forest Hills, voted for the first time in the 2020 election. And then she traveled to Georgia with her father Karl to canvass for the Democrats running in the Senate runoff. They took two road trips down to Athens, Georgia in December ahead of the January special […]
For decades as a city surveyor, Melvin C. Hazen had a vision for Tenleytown, which included a park at Fort Reno. Standing in his way – a community of Black people that had settled there after the Civil War. The Reno neighborhood was a nearly forgotten casualty of government and developer efforts to remake this […]
What was it like in DC-area virtual classrooms the day after the U.S. Capitol riot? The newspaper covering the happenings at Wilson High offers a window on the experiences of students, staff and faculty at the District’s largest school. Recent articles by The Beacon staff cover the return to in-person instruction, the waiving of community […]
by Mark Moran Approximately 3,100 educators – teachers and staff – were given the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the first week of February, according to District of Columbia Public Schools officials who spoke to educators and parents at a February 8th virtual meeting of the Ward 3-Wilson Feeder Education […]
Today brings an opportunity to change up the covid routine. The Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens (4155 Linnean Avenue, between Upton and Tilden Streets) has reopened for members, and on March 2nd, the museum and its grounds will be welcoming the general public as well. In both cases, reservations are required at least a day […]
DDOT is presenting traffic analysis findings from its Connecticut Avenue reversible lane/bike lane study at ANC meetings this month, including a virtual town hall meeting hosted by ANC 3F on Wednesday, February 24th at 7 p.m. (see below for the agenda and information on connecting). The 90-minute meeting will be split between DDOT’s presentation and […]
As in-person gatherings shut down a year ago in an effort to slow the pandemic’s spread, the organizers of many a school auction and gala scrambled to move the spring events online. The in-person festivities remain on hold this year. Murch Elementary and Deal Middle Schools are holding virtual auctions. And the PTA at Hearst […]
