As WJLA and others report, the District’s free Covid-19 testing sites have been swamped as case numbers rise around the region – and as people get ready to travel for […]
Updated: Covid-19 is no longer changing DC’s leaf collections this year
November 1 update: DPW has reversed course and will begin leaf collection on November 9th in the usual way – with vacuums picking up leaves raked into tree boxes along […]
Ward 3 Mutual Aid Network feeds residents, builds bonds between neighbors
by Will Fowler Sharon Moore was deeply concerned when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. A senior with diabetes, she is especially vulnerable to the disease – but it wasn’t the virus […]
Grocery shopping in a pandemic: How local stores are managing social distancing, and what’s disappearing from their shelves the fastest (Corrected)
Correction: Bread Furst has entrance control procedures in place to limit the number of people inside at one time. The item below has been changed. by Will Fowler The District […]
DC expands free Covid-19 testing at firehouses
A June 15th end date that appeared on the District’s coronavirus testing information site last week indicated that the Covid-19 tests performed at Engine Company 31 on Thursday, June 11th […]
If you’ve protested, get tested (and there’s now a free and local place to get it done)
Update: At some point after we published this and our other article about firehouse testing in the District, DC’s Covid-19 testing website put a June 15th end date on the […]
Forest Hills’ Engine Co. 31 and other DC firehouses conducting free Covid-19 tests
Update: At some point after we published this and an update on about firehouse testing in the District, DC’s Covid-19 testing website put a June 15th end date on the […]
Homeless encampment at 4250 Connecticut cleared out; residents remain in Van Ness
Right on schedule on Wednesday morning, representatives of Department of Public Works, the Metropolitan Police Department and Department of Human Services arrived at 4250 Connecticut Avenue to remove the homeless […]
At Friendship Place, homeless outreach adapts and expands in Covid-19 era
by Livia Bardin How do you stay at home when you have no home? How do you self-quarantine when you don’t have a room, a bathroom, a door to close? […]
How can we help one other? Please share your ideas, links and resources
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? […]