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One more week to go and the election ads will (hopefully) stop and we can get back to our usual fall festivities. This coming weekend is sure to be a crazy one. I hear hotels all around are booked with people traveling in for the Fear and Sanity rallies on the Mall, and we have the Marine Corps Marathon, and more Halloween festivities than you can count. Keep your eyes peeled for our Halloween on the Hill guide later today! If you’re new to the area, you are in for a treat. Sorry, I can’t resist a cheesy pun. Costume contests for kids and dogs, block parties, ghost tours in the neighborhood, cemetery and on Navy Yard ships, Thriller, zombie movies. Yep, our neighborhood knows how to celebrate a good holiday. But it’s not the weekend, yet. It’s time to sip that morning coffee and catch up on some reading.
- The City Paper’s Housing Complex blog and Greater Greater Washington took a look at Tommy Wells’ legislation that will keep the city’s homeless shelters for city residents only.
- CSTNE Project posted a thesis project from a VT Landscape Architecture student. The thesis deals with recycling underutilized lots into public parks to create a design scheme for more sustainable, livable, and walkable green space system for the Rosedale and Capitol Hill neighborhoods.
- Not really Hill-focused but Greater Greater Washington reminded its readers of the importance of the ANC elections.
- Famous DC likes our neighborhood’s Spider House.
- Capital Bikes checked out Ted’s Bulletin.
- And I unfortunately do not have a link to it since it’s subscription only, but Roll Call featured Walking Shtick, the tours put on by THIH’s Tim and Robert!