Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
We’ve talked about checking in on your elderly neighbors, and about ways to support local businesses. What else have you discovered as we feel our way through this unprecedented crisis? We’ll start: Coronavirus.DC.gov is a comprehensive guide to the DC services that are – and aren’t – available at this time.
by Jeff Seltzer Rock Creek and the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers are beloved environmental treasures. However, District residents and visitors cannot fully enjoy our local waterbodies as they routinely fall below water quality standards established to protect people and natural habitat. The degradation of the District’s waters occurred over several centuries as the traditional methods […]
Don’t be surprised if a new newspaper shows up on your front doorstep, front yard or building lobby today. It’s called The Northwest Courier. It quietly launched online at NWC.news in late April, And its first print edition is being delivered to households in Northwest DC today. The Courier covers a lot of the same […]
The May 8th edition of The Current, the weekly newspaper that covered Northwest DC for five decades, was its last. The newspaper is heading for liquidation. The Washington Post’s Eric Wemple was first to report the news that longtime (and former) publisher Davis Kennedy had petitioned to change the Current’s bankruptcy from Chapter 11 to […]
by Andrea Molod The DC Water board has voted to enact two changes to the Clean River Impervious Area Charge (CRIAC) that will ease the burden on individual homeowners. When fully implemented, the changes will amount to a reduction of homeowner CRIAC fees by up 37%, with an option for an additional 20% discount for […]
It’s not even spring cleaning season yet. But when the mayor’s office put out the call for our junk, we answered. Saturday, February 9th was Ward 3’s “Roll-Off Day,” an opportunity to get rid of bulk trash and other unwanted items and do so close to home. The Mayor’s Office of the Clean City started […]
by Marlene Berlin I don’t know about you, but I find figuring out what to do with what we don’t use anymore or our waste is complicated and challenging. This all came to a head when one foot got wet working the polls on our rainy Election Day. I had been wearing my very dependable […]
by Marlene Berlin Wet streets and puddles are mostly a nuisance during the warmer times of year. But now, it’s road ice season. DDOT took care of one persistent trouble spot just before a Thanksgiving freeze. A clogged storm drain on Broad Branch Road between Soapstone Culvert and Brandywine Street had been causing puddling on […]
“Ready to rake, DC?” asks DPW’s 2018 leaf collection brochure. Someone needs to ask the trees. Some are giving up their leaves, but for the most part they are showing us their brilliant fall colors. Ready or not, the District began its first round of leaf collection this week. Homeowners who got the brochure in […]
The new, temporary home of DC Public Library’s DC history archive opens at 4340 Connecticut Avenue on Tuesday, September 11th. The UDC Law building will be home to the Washingtoniana Collection until the MLK Library renovation is completed in fall 2020. The Washingtoniana Collection’s hours are: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays […]
