Please be extra careful when driving today. Thereโll be a lot of excited children running around the neighborhood.
#Halloween
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Please be extra careful when driving today. Thereโll be a lot of excited children running around the neighborhood.
#Halloween
November in the Neighborhood: Fight hunger with NW Community Food; Hillwood is free for federal workers
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Backyard Nature: A 'toothy' frog
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Neighborhood in the News: More charges in childโs Connecticut House death; The โGray Resistance;โ Broad Branch flooding donโts
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A call for volunteers to remove invasive plants from Forest Hills Park
27.10.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0DC Water's next project in the neighborhood: water main and lead pipe replacement
27.10.2025 14:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Business in Brief: Iโm Eddie Cano parent in bankruptcy; trendy hot dogs; learn food photography techniques
27.10.2025 13:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A call for volunteers to remove invasive plants from Forest Hills Park
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DC Waterโs next project in the neighborhood: water main and lead pipe replacement
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Business in Brief: Iโm Eddie Cano parent in bankruptcy; trendy hot dogs; learn food photography techniques
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A photo of what appears to be a rock-strewn dirt trail, but it is actually covered in acorns.
Backyard Nature: A hiker's pain is the squirrels' gain as slippery acorns drop in large numbers
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Meet Your Neighbors: 'People-Centered Architecture' and pedestrian-centered railroad infrastructure
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A 'significant milestone' in DC Water's Soapstone sewer project, but completion is still weeks away.
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Obamacare, the government shutdown, and a 2017 FHC forum that โsolved all the problemsโ
13.10.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Food, face painting, line dancing and more: The complete events and vendors lineup for Saturdayโs โCelebrate Van Ness Main Streetโ event
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New, but also not: On Tuesday, October 14th, ANC 3F will hold its first in-person/virtual hybrid meeting since February 2020.
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Neighbors are organizing an Oct. 18 No Kings II demonstration along Connecticut Avenue.
๐ธ A June demonstration outside of the UDC Student Center.
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Bread Furst barbecue, Sfoglina gelato, a pop-up artisans market, line dancing class, and musicians everywhere: The events and vendors lineup for this Saturdayโs โCelebrate Van Ness Main Streetโ is coming together.
06.10.2025 13:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The government shutdown and the national park next door
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Because we need joy. We need community. And most of these events are all-ages and free: Spooky Movie Nights, 'Celebrate VNMS,' pollinator plantings, Halloween events.
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Tune in for the Oct. 1 hearing on Canna Artโs medical marijuana retail license
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Still need your covid and flu shots? CVS is welcoming walk-ins without prescriptions.
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๐ธVan Ness CVS in 2021
A brief history of sidewalk advocacy in the neighborhood
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Join me for our next Workday in the Ward on Thu, Sept 25 at Bread Furst (4434 Conn Ave NW). Iโll be there 8โ10am for coffee & conversation. Stop by to share your ideas or concerns! โ
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Some cool late September events in the neighbood:
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Community service and cool jazz: A day at Forest Hills Park
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Finding affordable performance space is a perennial problem for D.C.โs small theater companies. But two advisory neighborhood commissioners are working to change that.
16.09.2025 15:00 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This Sunday is Sun Day, a chance to learn about harnessing solar power at home. Even if your home is an apartment.
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Main Street updates: Big day out on Sept. 13, and a sneak peak at October events
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ANC 3F September 16 agenda: No Soapstone sewer update (!); Reno Road crossings, DC Home Rule
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