Suit up in your seersucker, your straw hats and summer skorts and grab your wheelie shoes or walking sticks for a special tour of the Capitol. It is fun to explore your own neighborhood and you will see and learn a dozen things you didn’t know unless you are Tim or Robert, we suppose, who […]
Last Thursday was a quiet but momentous milestone for the community of Two Rivers Public Charter School. It was the school’s very first graduation day. Eighteen eighth graders were awarded diplomas and showered with advice and words of wisdom for the future while parents, teachers and administrators beamed with pride. A few of the kids […]
As many of you know, there has been an ongoing effort to have Barney Circle designated as a Historic District. There are pros and cons and many opinions on whether or not this is something neighbors actually want, and that’s a post I’m working on for next week. In the meantime, the Historic Preservation Office […]
Fellow Hill residents, I have a question for you. Why are your tree boxes such a mess? I ask with sympathy and understanding. When I bought my home on the Hill, I inherited an overgrown, unsightly tree box, and after a year living in my home the city agreed with me and sent me a […]
Sometime last month, I attended an event at the yet-to-be-opened Chesapeake Room and though there was no food service at that event, I already loved the atmosphere and of course the large, tented patio on the corner of 8th Street SE and E Street SE. The Chesapeake Room officially opened for business Memorial Day weekend, […]