They do say to write what you know…: And author Susan Coll knows bookstores. She worked at Politics and Prose (5015 Connecticut) from 2011 to 2016, and rejoined the store […]
Forest Hills of DC earns national quality award for improving care (Sponsored)
(This post is sponsored by Forest Hills of DC.) Senior living communities across the U.S. have been challenged to maintain their quality of care during the Covid-19 pandemic. Forest Hills […]
Soapstone sewer project update: Stream restoration under way; noise complaints, and no sewer pipe work for at least 60 days
by Marlene Berlin The sewer rehabilitation project in the Soapstone Valley is also a stream restoration project, intended both to repair damage from years of stormwater erosion and to armor […]
In appreciation of the mayor’s office liaisons who are “here to get stuff done”
by Marlene Berlin One of my regular walking routes takes me by the Broad Branch daylighted stream along Linnean Avenue (map). For weeks, I watched as the grasses alongside the […]
Hey, kids and teens: Sundays this summer, you can help Connecticut Avenue’s pollinator gardens grow
Van Ness Main Street and ANC 3F have a kid-friendly volunteer opportunity (and a chance for teens to earn community service hours) each Sunday through August. Here’s the notice from […]
Good deeds make a neighborhood great
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 […]
Neighborhood in the News: Van Ness sniper’s motives still unknown; ‘Barely solvent’ Whittle School; ‘Melvin Hazen No More’
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 […]
Business in Brief: Italian Bar opens; Details about Flavor Garden; Rosemary Bistro gets Washington Post raves
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 […]
This Saturday, help start a new pollinator garden and visit local EU-member embassies
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 […]
What we know so far about the Van Ness DC shootings
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 […]