The Hill is Home reached out to Danica Petroshius, a DCPS parent of two and a member of Ward 6 Public School Parents’ Organization, to get her opinion on the At-Large State Board of Education race. Danica is an involved and knowledgeable parent who has written opinion pieces for THIH in the past This is Danica’s opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of all W6PSPO members. I’m voting for Mysiki Valentine for […]
In the last two weeks, I introduced Frank Frager and told about how he opened his hardware store. Today, I will look at the rest of the story. While Frank Frager tended to his store, his sons were out to make names for themselves. While they occasionally were mentioned in long lists of students who […]
It’s Wednesday, folks. I don’t know who else is struggling under the weight of our collective grief over RBG (Washington Post) or of the weather changes, but if you need a little time to just relax and breathe, do it. Feels like I’m writing a lot of self-help-y kinds of directions lately, but again– the times […]
Last week, I looked at the arrival of Frank Frager in the US and the murder of the man he had come here with. The murder remained unsolved and a year and a half afterward. The state of the case was summarized in an article along with other unsolved mysteries, and the newspaper opined that, […]
Reader and Capitol Hill resident Johanna Elsemore recently wrote in with an incredible story of iron-like endurance, cleverness and the help and support of friends and neighbors on and off the Hill. Elsemore’s husband, Courtney Tate, had been training hard for the IRONMAN Maryland race, which was supposed to take place on September 19. The […]