Judging by the traffic on neighborhood listservs and Twitter, a lot of people are worked up about the U.S. National Parks Service’s decision to close the east side of Lincoln Park, including both playgrounds for three months starting on February 25th. In response to a large email, letter and Facebook campaign that appears to have originated [...]
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On February 25, 2013, the National Park Service will shut down a large portion of the eastern side of Lincoln Park for a large-scale repair/rehabilitation project. The closure is scheduled to last 90 days (until May 27th). This, of course, means that just as the weather will start to warm up, both playgrounds, the large grassy [...]
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The Ward 6 Redistricting Task Force meets Thursday, July 21st, 6:30pm at Miner Elementary School (601 15th Street, NE). This is the task force’s third meeting, billed as a 6A community listening meeting. The task force’s first meeting was a briefing with the Board of Elections and Ethics and Office of Planning and its second was [...]
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The subcommittee on redistricting has released its recommendations on redrawing the boundaries for each ward, and, as expected, Capitol Hill is slated to lose a chunk to Ward 7. Eastern High School and Eliot-Hine Middle School will stay with Ward 6, but everything east of 17th Street, including Reservation 13, will become part of Ward [...]
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Whether or not the message got through to members of the Special Committee on Redistricting, yesterday’s rally did attract the attention of local news outlets. If you missed it, Greater Greater Washington and the City Paper both have articles up today. We also have the video below from Fox 5. Did you go to the [...]
Tags: ANC 6A·ANC 6B·redistricting·Wad 7·Ward 6
[Thus far, we have offered our readers perspectives on redistricting from ANC 6B Commissioner Brian Flahaven and Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells. Today we turn to Hill East resident and THIH contributor Tim Krepp for his perspective.] As many of you already know, I, and many of the eastern fringe of Capitol Hill, may soon [...]
ANC 6A had a relatively light agenda for March. The meeting began with approvals for a number of recommendations by the ANC’s committees. First was a grant for $1,767 to the Maury Elementary PTA for the purchase of 3 overhead projectors that are otherwise out of scope for what is available to purchase through regular [...]
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An abundance of trash on your street? Cars driving too fast in your neighborhood? Looking for a way to get more involved in the community? Your Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner is here to help (and yes, he/she ran for the position knowing it was unpaid!) This week, Sharee Calverley Lawler (ANC 6A 05) tells us about [...]
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