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Good deeds make a neighborhood great

June 10, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Marlene Berlin A week ago, I headed down Davenport Street on my daily walk. We’d had an inch of rain the day before, and I wanted to see the impact of all of that stormwater. It did not take me long to find some storm-related damage. At the intersection of Davenport and Broad Branch […]

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Neighborhood in the News: Van Ness sniper’s motives still unknown; ‘Barely solvent’ Whittle School; ‘Melvin Hazen No More’

June 8, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

There’s so much we still don’t know about the April 22 Van Ness shootings. And one of the chief unknowns is why. Nothing investigators learned in the early days after the attack pointed to the gunman’s motive. As one MPD investigator told The Washington Post in an article published on May 12th, “We have the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Forest Hills, Neighborhood in the News, News, Van Ness

Business in Brief: Italian Bar opens; Details about Flavor Garden; Rosemary Bistro gets Washington Post raves

May 17, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

Italian Bar’s opening day is at hand: Friday the 13th might forever be Italian Bar’s lucky day. Its owners announced on Friday, May 13th that its sign had arrived, and was gracing the storefront at 5007 Connecticut Avenue. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Italian Bar DC (@italianbardc) But more importantly, so […]

Filed Under: Business, Business in Brief, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Featured, Forest Hills, Main Street, News, Shop & Eat Local, Tenleytown, Wakefield

This Saturday, help start a new pollinator garden and visit local EU-member embassies

May 9, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

For the last several weekends, volunteers from the neighborhood have beautified our area by planting native, pollinator-friendly plants and flowers along Connecticut Avenue in front of businesses, offices and the Montessori school between Van Ness Street Street and Nebraska Avenue. The effort will continue for the next two Saturdays, May 14th and 21st, from 1:00 […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Forest Hills, News, Things To Do, Van Ness

What we know so far about the Van Ness DC shootings

April 26, 2022 by FHC 1 Comment

It happened quickly – dozens of shots fired in rapid succession shortly before 4 p.m. on Friday, April 22nd. Reports came in of two, three, then four people wounded in and around Edmund Burke School, including a 12-year-old child. Hours passed with area residents, students, and Van Ness workers told to shelter in place until […]

Filed Under: Cleveland Park, Featured, Forest Hills, Neighborhood in the News, News, Public Safety, UDC, Van Ness

Restoring Linnean Avenue’s tree-lined splendor took door-to-door fundraising and a lot of digging

March 11, 2022 by FHC 1 Comment

by David Falk When we moved to Forest Hills in 1964, Linnean Avenue was shaded on both sides by stately elms, creating a beautiful and cool thoroughfare for spring, summer and fall. Then Dutch elm disease arrived, and one by one our street elms withered and died, exceeding the ability of the District to plant […]

Filed Under: Featured, Forest Hills, History, Meet the Neighbors, News, Style

This spring, plant pollinator-friendly blooms, shop pop-up markets, and tour the world without leaving the neighborhood

March 2, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

Spring can get here any day now. And it’s not like we can hurry it along. But we can plan to make spring in Van Ness and Forest Hills more colorful, and more lively, and more fun. Enjoy live jazz: On Thursday, March 17th at 6 p.m., UDC Jazz Studies director Allyn Johnson is hosting […]

Filed Under: Featured, Forest Hills, Main Street, News, Peirce Mill, Things To Do, UDC, Van Ness, You're Invited

MPD referred three Van Ness apartment buildings to DC AG’s “nuisance” property office

January 18, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

The commander of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District has reported three Van Ness and Forest Hills apartment buildings to the division of the Office of the Attorney General that handles “nuisance” properties because they have not implemented recommendations that could curtail problems that lead to many police service calls. At a December 16th public […]

Filed Under: Around the Neighborhood, Featured, Forest Hills, High-Rise Life, News

Van Ness Main Street is gearing up for a banner year – starting with new banners

December 17, 2021 by FHC Leave a Comment

Van Ness Main Street intends to start the new year “with a flourish.” In her year-end letter to the community, Barbara Lardy, the president of Van Ness Main Street, revealed new street light banners that will be installed along Connecticut Avenue in January. “[T]hese beautiful banners will be our brand statement markers as people walk […]

Filed Under: Featured, Forest Hills, Main Street, News, Van Ness, Wakefield

Join a Van Ness/Forest Hills public safety meeting on Dec. 16th

December 15, 2021 by FHC 3 Comments

On Thursday, December 16th at 6:30 p.m., Council member Mary Cheh is hosting a virtual public safety meeting to discuss a recent uptick in crime along the Connecticut Avenue corridor in Van Ness and Forest Hills. To join this meeting by Zoom, click here. To call in to the meeting, dial 888-475-4499 or 877-853-5257. The […]

Filed Under: Forest Hills, News, News Alerts, Van Ness

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