(Photo by Darrow Montgomery)
H.D. Woodson Senior High School, a.k.a. the nine-floor "Tower of Power," is set to be demolished this summer. But when and how exactly?
Yesterday, Woodson's alumni association (and surely a multitude of other D.C. listservs) received word that the groundbreaking would occur Monday July 7 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. [...]
The Benning Neighborhood Library has been closed since December 2004, leaving lots of Ward 7 residents wondering when their community will be served by something more than occasional bookmobiles and a tiny kiosk in nearby Deanwood.
At a mid-February meeting of the Ward 7 Leadership Council, they thought they finally had an answer: D.C. Council Chairman [...]
The whispers began as soon as Ward 7 D.C. Council candidate Victor Vandell's yard signs started going up. Opponents had obtained information that Vandell, running as a Democrat, was actually a registered Republican until just before he moved to his Deanwood home in May 2006.
Technically, Vandell's opponents are correct. An inquiry to the D.C. Board [...]
When the D.C. Public Library announced the arrival of wireless Internet at DCPL locations across the city in September, only a single neighborhood branch out of more than 20 found itself uninvited to the hip Wi-Fi party: the Deanwood Kiosk.
The hot-spot snub shouldn't have surprised anyone who's visited the diminutive, 150-square-foot hexagonal outpost on Nannie [...]
Artist's rendering of the proposed Fatdog's
Fatdog's at present
Deanwood resident Catherine Woods is used to eyesores in the neighborhood. “Just look at this,” she says, pointing out piles of refuse, baggies from drug deals, and the stashed belongings of homeless residents in a winding, overgrown alley behind her home. But this alley has something that other [...]
