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Upcoming Community Meetings

April 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

In addition to the regularly scheduled PSA and ANC meetings this month, please also mark your calendar for an update on the Streetcar project. On Wednesday, April 20, the DDOT will hold the first of a series of quarterly public meetings for the H Street/Benning Road DC Streetcar Project, which will be held at the [...]

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ANC 6A’s March Meeting

March 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Capitol Hill North, H Street

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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Upcoming Community Meetings

February 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

First up for this month’s community meetings, DCPS will hold a public meeting tonight to announce their decision on re-opening Van Ness Elementary School. The meeting will be held at 6pm at the Arthur Capper Seniors building at 900 5th St., SE. As for your regularly scheduled ANC and PSA meetings, dates and agendas are [...]

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ANC 6A Meeting Recap

February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill North

If you were to ask me for a headline to describe February’s ANC 6A meeting, I’d call it the, “We Pretty Much Agree on Everything Except Marathons” meeting.  Aside from the inconveniences of road blockages, the commission also discussed the renaming of the Rosedale rec center, pending snow removal legislation and heard from the owner [...]

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Upcoming Community Meetings

February 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Crime, development, new businesses, liquor licenses…it’s the fun that fills the agendas of the community meetings.  So mark your calendar and come out to meet your ANC commissioner, police officers and other community meetings.

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Dreaming Up a New Playground in Hill East

February 1st, 2011 · 17 Comments · Capitol Hill South

I spent the better part of my elementary school years with skinned knees. Swings and monkey bars on top of blacktop will do that. Ours, a typical 1970’s school playground, was not the safest, but my classmates and I did learn to hang on for dear life. Playgrounds today are much more knee-friendly and really [...]

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What You Missed at the ANC 6B December Meeting

December 15th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Barney Circle, Barracks Row, Capitol Hill South, Eastern Market, New Hill East

Tuesday night’s ANC meeting was a long one and truthfully, I couldn’t make it all of the way to the end.  When two and a half hours had gone by and the commissioners were still going back and forth – a bit contentiously – on what provisions to include on a voluntary agreement for the [...]

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Tommy Wells’ Office Hours This Thursday in NoMa

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells has been in the news a lot lately. He’s weighed in on reductions to the city the budget and advocated tax increases for the city’s wealthiest. He had a large role in the recently passed law about youth offenders — and of course after the random attack near Harris Teeter, he [...]

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Reminder: Capitol Hill Information Hub Project Meeting TONIGHT

December 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Eastern Market

From WhattheHill.org: Capitol Hill residents are invited to view design concepts for a proposed Information Hub that may be stationed at Eastern Market Metro Plaza to provide a more efficient and serviceable center than the Capitol Hill BID’s pilot information table and tent now stationed there on weekends. On Tuesday, December 14, from 6:00 – [...]

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Last Night’s Meeting on Van Ness Elementary

December 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitol Riverfront/ Near Southeast

Last night a group of residents of the Capitol Riverfront community met with Interim Chancellor Kaya Henderson regarding the future of Van Ness Elementary. Van Ness, confusingly, is located on 5th Street SE, adjacent to M Street SE and not in the Northwest neighborhood of the same name.  The school was closed by DCPS in [...]

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