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After a long pandemic-related closure, the Rock Creek Nature Center reopens this week

May 23, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

On Wednesday, the Rock Creek Nature Center at 5200 Glover Road NW will open for the first time since March 2020. Covid-19 was, of course, the reason for the initial closure. The National Park Service says staffing shortages were also a factor in keeping the facility closed for this long. It’s a partial reopening. The […]

Filed Under: News, Parks and Streams, Rock Creek Nature Center, Rock Creek Park, Things To Do

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Meet Your Neighbors updates: The artists of Forest Hills and Van Ness

May 16, 2022 by FHC 2 Comments

Rose Mosner Rose Mosner, collage artist, teacher and lifelong learner, died in February. She was 95 years old. Mosner taught art at a Queens public middle school for decades, and later, she taught collage art classes to adults through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University. Mosner once described her adult students as “vibrant, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Meet the Neighbors, News, Style

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, Main Street, News, Things To Do, Van Ness

CANCELLED: Meet the makers who will be at Van Ness Main Street’s May 14th spring pop-up market

April 28, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

The weather is not cooperating! After the May 7th postponement due to rain, the May 14th market has been cancelled… due to rain. Van Ness Main Street is talking to vendors and trying for a June date, to be announced. An impressive group of area artists, artisans and makers will be popping up at Van […]

Filed Under: Main Street, News, Things To Do, Van Ness

The UDC Van Ness farmers market is back. Here’s who will be there every Saturday through November.

April 27, 2022 by FHC 1 Comment

Updated 4/28/2022 with the list of confirmed vendors, and new hours of operation. It’s fate. It has to be. Last weekend we pulled the last of our tamales stash from the freezer. And not just any tamales. These were Doña Rosa tamales, from the 2021 UDC Van Ness farmers market. We were glad because we […]

Filed Under: Featured, Food, Market Finds, News, Things To Do, UDC, Van Ness

Plan your Saturday: Morris dancers greet spring at Peirce Mill; Join the Rock Creek “Extreme Cleanup,” Shop the “Books and Blossoms” pop-up

April 6, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

4/7/2022 update: Friends of Peirce Mill says the mill will not be running on April 9th after all, due to a “recently identified safety issue.” “The gears will be still, but the Mill will nevertheless be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with volunteers and park rangers on hand to provide […]

Filed Under: Main Street, News, Peirce Mill, Rock Creek Park, Things To Do, Van Ness, Volunteer in Our Parks

UDC is opening its tennis courts to registered members of the public

March 24, 2022 by FHC 4 Comments

by John Young The UDC tennis courts are now open to members of the public who register for the Firebirds Community Access Tennis Program. The new program includes: A $200 annual membership fee, which covers the entire household. (According to UDC, members will pay $100 twice a year, the first covering the six months through […]

Filed Under: News, Services, UDC, Van Ness

Sponsored: Don’t want to spend a fortune on property management services? This DC couple offers a more affordable option.

March 22, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

This post is sponsored by By the Hour Property Management. Andrea Surette and Jeremy Muenz, a couple who lives across the park in Petworth, had a rental property, and a problem. They needed a property management company, but the ones they found charged exorbitant monthly rates for the services provided. “We were floored,” Jeremy said, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Home Front, News, Real Estate, Services, Sponsored

Who to call when you see someone in crisis

March 17, 2022 by FHC Leave a Comment

by Marlene Berlin In early February, dozens of community members got to meet MPD Officer John Wright, one of two police officers in the Second District trained specifically to work with the homeless. As a result his training and experience, Wright said, he has “developed a lot of patience and compassion for people experiencing in […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Public Safety, Services

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

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