The Hill is Home had its ear out this week for initiatives to support the Haitian earthquake relief effort, and found some generous and creative ways Hill’s residents, even its youngest citizens, are raising money and emptying their piggy banks for charities providing help in ravaged Haiti. Watkins Elementary, in the 400 block of 12th Street, […]
Just north of Lincoln Park, where Tennessee and Constitution Avenues intersect with 13th, lies one of Capitol Hill’s most historic schools, Maury Elementary. Maury has been a fixture of the Hill since its construction in 1886 and is one of the best examples of the eight room schoolhouse that was standard in the 1880s and […]
After five years of community activism, recognition in the Capitol Hill Transportation Study and an investment in research and study, DDOT held a public meeting on January 12th to discuss the conceptual design development process for C Street, NE. The public meeting followed a stakeholder workshop just after the first of the year. The stakeholders […]
Last week, THIH wrote about the candidate forum for the ANC5B-06 special election that is taking place this Thursday, January 21st, from 7-8:30 PM in the gym at Joseph H. Cole Recreation, 1200 Morse Street, NE. At that forum, I asked the candidates, George Jackson, Tontalya Terceiro-Wright, Thalia Wiggins and Bernice Hall-Gates, to share their […]
Welcome back to the work week! The beauty of long weekends is that you only have to suffer through four days at the office before the next weekend. The downside is that you only have four days to get all of your work done. And that backlog of emails waiting for you? It will still […]