For the past six years, Hillcrest residents have donated their time to sprucing up Twining Park, a triangle park along Pennsylvania Avenue SE owned by the National Park Service. Near the end of May, the Park Service drops off about 50 flats of salvia, marigolds, black-eyed Susans, Shasta lilies, dahlias, and Canna lilies, and residents [...]

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tenleytown
Penny Pagano, Ward 3 Councilmember Kathy Patterson’s chief of staff, chose the wrong list to post a proud message announcing her boss's successful amendment to provide the D.C. library system with $740,000 to upgrade the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library [...]

Last time Tommy Keefer visited the annual Celebrate Mount Pleasant Festival, he says via e-mail, “I had a dream.
“I imagined one day I would actually live in Mount Pleasant and would invite my friends over for Mojitos and we would all walk up to the Festival and eat and have a good time and then [...]

Every year since 2002, the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) has posted daily water-quality notices at two locations along its namesake river from June through October. If a blue flag is flying, fecal coliform levels are below the boating standard (good); a yellow flag means levels are above the standard (potentially bad). Last year, the Bladensburg [...]

Found at 16th and Euclid Streets NW:

The District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) has restarted a standard bit of librarying that hasn't happened in eight years: mailing out fine notices to patrons with overdue books and materials. The DCPL had not sent the notices since 1998, when it halted the practice due to budget cuts. But beginning May 1, library patrons [...]

On Saturday, April 22, the D.C. Public Library (DCPL) closed four of its branches—the Capitol View, Chevy Chase, Francis A. Gregory, and Woodridge Neighborhood Libraries—for volunteers to participate in a “Fix It Up” day. “What we were trying to do was to go above and beyond what [custodial staff are] physically capable of accomplishing…such as [...]

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DupontForum
One poster's delight over the beautification of the notoriously chintzy 17th Street Safeway leads to a decidedly rare form of posting: the rave. “The changes happening there are really a great improvement over the outdated store that it was,” says the [...]

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This edition: Easter Sunday crime blotter
MPD-4D
From the incident report for an assault on the 5900 block of Piney Branch Road NW: “Complaintant reports he was play fighting with suspect (his uncle). Suspect became upset and left. Suspect then returned with a [...]

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WardOneDC
A post that links to the Office of Campaign Finance's candidate list, on which a Michael Brown is listed as a mayoral candidate, gets one resident a little nervous. “Somebody please tell that this isn't the same fema Michael brown,” he [...]

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LDSAbstractSingles
When a guitar player performing a special musical number during a Mormon church service stops mid-strum, instructs the A/V guy to “plug me in,” and proceeds to rock out the hymn (think Marty McFly at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance), [...]

In July 2000, City Paper profiled Jeff Schmidt, who, in May of that year, was fired from his job as an editor at Physics Today.
The reason for Schmidt's termination after 19 years of service, his employers told him, was because he had “stolen time” at work to write a book, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look [...]