Oh God, it’s ShamrockFest time again. Every year we go through this. Hordes of drunks staggering their way back from RFK and trying (and, oh so often failing) to figure out how to use the Metro. And yes, peeing. Like cats in mating season. All over the neighborhood and themselves. Every year those of us […]
While overall crime is down in PSA 107, last week’s February meeting did address a recent string of PCP related arrests on the Hill. The alleged incidents involved the arrest of a woman on Monday at 17th and C streets SE, on Wednesday at 15th and D streets SE and an arrest at the Stadium […]
Despite Mother Nature’s well played attempt to derail our conversation, I caught up with Lieutenant Michael Thornton of PSA 107 for a Capitol Hill crime status report earlier this week. Special thanks in advance to the Lieutenant for donating his time to The Hill is Home. Towards the end of last year, there seemed to […]
A sad and bizarre story this morning from near Eastern Market. DC Fire and EMS responded to a car fire in a garage on the corner of 8th and A ST SE a little before 5 AM today. Once on scene, firefighters found heavy smoke and fire in a garage. While the fire was quickly […]
This article, by David Holmes, originally appeared in the September, 2010, newsletter of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society. Change may be in store for 11th Street, SE. At a meeting called by ANC Commissioner Kristen Oldenburg and Councilmember Tommy Wells, the District Department of Transportation (DDoT) presented proposed changes in street parking and new bike […]