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 [...]
Tags: ANC 6A·closures·Lincoln Park·Moms on the Hill·MOTH·National Parks Service·rehabilitation·Upgrades
Ah, the life of a parent: the first few years you are sleep-deprived and covered in spit-up, and you are also routinely suffocated by diapers and inadequacies. And then the little darlings get older and you’re so happy they finally let you live, but then you discover that they HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL AND [...]
Tags: growing up on the hill·kids·MOTH·parent on the hill·parents·School Information Night·Schools
The brutal attack 0n TC Maslin late Friday night has caused many on the Hill to pause and wonder how something that appears to be an arbitrary life-threatening event could happen in the shadow of Eastern Market, in the midst of what are often considered some of the best addresses of our burg. The Maslin [...]
Hundreds of parents are expected at the annual Mothers on the Hill (MOTH) School Information Night Tuesday, November 15 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Hill Center. For a view into the high stakes drama of choosing educational programs and schools on the Hill, watch the bevy of anxious parents that’s sure to gather and plot [...]
Now in its ninth year, the Hill School Information Night is scheduled for this coming Wednesday, December 1 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Eastern Market North Hall. Produced by Moms on the Hill (MoTH), the evening is set up for casual information gathering from Hill and area schools, daycares, child care centers, playgroups, [...]
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If money were no object, we would pick party dresses off gilded racks like fruit off trees, order up dresses for the grand ball from couture dressmakers in Milan and Paris or over at those glassy buzz-in boutiques flanking Mazza Gallerie, but this being Capitol Hill circa 2009, both savvy and thrift prevail. The economic downturn of the [...]
If money were no object, we would pick party dresses off gilded racks like fruit off trees, order up dresses for the grand ball from couture dressmakers in Milan and Paris or over at those glassy buzz-in boutiques flanking Mazza Gallerie, but this being Capitol Hill circa 2009, both savvy and thrift prevail. The economic downturn of the [...]
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