Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
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by David Jonas Bardin DC Water came to Tuesday night’s ANC 3F meeting to let us know they’re getting closer to revealing the latest plan to address Soapstone Valley’s 110-year-old sanitary sewer system. The environmental assessment is to be issued in the next month or so for public comments. DC Water engineer Louis Arguello spoke […]
by Marlene Berlin Two lots are being developed by the owner Sassan Kimiavi, just south of the 4400 block of Linnean Avenue beyond the dead end. Locations are approximate. Tree stumps can be seen from the “social” trail that leads from the dead end Street to Soapstone Valley Trail. John Anderson of DDOT’s Urban Forestry […]
by Marlene Berlin It’s been almost a year since our last update on the century-old sewers running through Soapstone Valley, and almost six years since DC Water and the National Park Service revealed plans to do something about them. So first, a recap: Both the National Park Service and DC Water worry the aging sewer […]
by Marlene Berlin The spring and late summer rainstorms were relentless. So are the volunteers who repair storm-damaged hiking trails. The DC chapter of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) regularly brings volunteers to improve the Melvin C Hazen and Soapstone Valley Trails. They repaired this Melvin Hazen stream crossing in August: The Soapstone trail’s […]
We weren’t joking when we echoed a DCist writer’s recent conclusion that ANC meetings are as entertaining as they are informative. Knowing what’s happening in the neighborhood is also quite satisfying, and your next chance at achieving that sense of accomplishment is coming up at ANC 3F’s March meeting. The advisory neighborhood commission for Forest […]
by Marlene Berlin I got a late start. I’d been reading the latest Christian Science Monitor, which gives you the scoop on the good news that is happening around the world, and then the Washington Post, where I learned Walmart will not build two stores that were to anchor two shopping centers east of the […]
This Saturday and Monday, volunteers led by the Rock Creek Conservancy will gather in Soapstone Valley and other Rock Creek parks to work on improving them. You can join them. The Soapstone Trail also got some attention last Saturday, on January 9th. About a dozen volunteers with the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club worked on the […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the King holiday to serve their neighbors and communities. This Saturday, January 16th and Monday, January 18th, you can join your neighbors and […]
by Pat Jakopchek ANC 3F07 commissioner Each weekday, over 37,000 cars travel through our neighborhood along Connecticut Avenue. Their riders head to one of the countless commitments of their modern lives. All the while, some of our community’s biggest gems sit just a few hundred feet from the edges of that thoroughfare. Contrary to what […]
