I recently spent a Monday morning getting fitted for a set of golf clubs and hitting a few balls with a PGA Pro. I tweeted about it and was asked if I was at Haines Point or Langston. My response? Right here on the Hill. In a garage behind A St. SE. Welcome to Capitol […]
Thanks to the Sports on the Hill enterprise, aspiring youth soccer, softball and lacrosse players commandeer the Hill’s playing fields each weekend throughout the spring and fall. There’s even a wrestling league. The newest sport to hit the local kid craze is tennis, and a league for not only youth but also adults is in […]
On January 6 longtime Hill East resident Ethel Funches passed away, leaving a legacy on the 1600 block of D Street Northeast, and a formidable record in the annals of women’s amateur golf. Funches was 96. Katie Hodge said Funches made quite an impression on her when she and her realtor visited her house when […]
Congratulations to the Watkins Hornets for their win at the Pee Wee Division 1 National Football Championship! The Hornets were the first D.C. team to ever compete in what is essentially the Super Bowl of Pee Wee football – that’s pretty impressive! They defeated the Florida City Razorbacks from Miami, Florida 22-8 and returned to D.C. […]
A few months back an old friend started to post about her early days as a DC Rollergirl. The posters for the events were enough to pull me in — and I hadn’t even seen the publicity shots. Ahem, look to your left for an eyeful of fishnet, garter belts, eyeliner gone wrong and lots […]