Polls closed at 8:30 PM Thursday night at Joseph Cole Recreation in Northeast. At 8:48 PM, Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas swore in the newest member of ANC 5B: Thalia Wiggins. A small business owner and the youngest of four candidates on the ballot, Wiggins was endorsed by retiring Commissioner Wilhelmina Lawson and Frozen Tropics. […]
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, […]
Food is among the most primal creature comforts, and among the more hotly debated ones. Some people gravitate toward things that became the childhood trauma of others: I cannot explain what people would ever find delicious about marmite or kimchi; at the same time, I cannot believe that anyone would hate cilantro, fried blood sausage, […]
The Hill is Home learned yesterday that after more than two years, Lt. Daniel Ewell will be handing over management of PSA 107 to the recently promoted Lt. David Thorton, who has served as a sergeant in patrol within the First District, and most recently the Internal Affairs Bureau. PSA 107 is the quadrant between […]
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 […]