Win free tickets to Bourbon & Bluegrass with Lincoln's Cottage!

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Win free tickets to Bourbon & Bluegrass with Lincoln's Cottage!

Bourbon and Bluegrass is an annual preservation fundraiser and celebration of great American music and cocktails to help safeguard Abraham Lincoln’s beloved summer home right here in Petworth. The performance is virtual and will be livestreamed from President Lincoln’s Cottage where it will be performed live for the veterans at the Armed Forces Retirement Home who have been sequestered the past year.

Enter for a chance to win free tickets!

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New West school building will open this fall and will be DC’s first "Net-Zero" school

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New West school building will open this fall and will be DC’s first "Net-Zero" school

After a multi-year, community-led effort to modernize West Elementary school at 1335 Farragut Street NW, the new building’s doors will open to students this fall as students return to the classrooms in person.

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After years with no HVAC, in the midst of a pandemic, Powell parents have reached their boiling point

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After years with no HVAC, in the midst of a pandemic, Powell parents have reached their boiling point

As District schools finish their second pandemic year, and parents cautiously anticipate a return to normalcy next fall, families at Powell Elementary School are girding for a fight. The school’s HVAC system, which has been broken for the entirety of the COVID pandemic — even as some kids returned to in-person learning — is still inoperable. Parents and the school Principal are afraid it may not be fixed by the fall, forcing unvaccinated children to resume school in boiling hot classrooms without proper air circulation.

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Found at the library: One woman’s remembrance of growing up in 1920s Petworth

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Found at the library: One woman’s remembrance of growing up in 1920s Petworth

Out of curiosity, I recently started digging around the DC Library Archives for stuff about the Petworth neighborhood and came across a small book published in 1995, “Growing Up in Petworth in Washington DC 1919-1950.” Written by Margaret MacGill at the age of 76, she recalls the story of her family and childhood in her family house at 528 Taylor St NW. She writes in the book that the home’s location “must have seemed like the end of the world to be moving that far out from downtown.”

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Getting a Main Street designation can help Petworth businesses

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Getting a Main Street designation can help Petworth businesses

There’s been a push to create a Main Street for the Petworth area to help small businesses along the Georgia Avenue corridor. This effort requires both community support and DC Council support.

Learn more and sign a petition or learn how to testify in support of the designation to help small business in Petworth.

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Golden Flour Bakery brings delicious gluten-free and traditional treats to Kennedy Street

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Golden Flour Bakery brings delicious gluten-free and traditional treats to Kennedy Street

While the bakery isn’t open yet, it’s slated to open doors later this Spring/early Summer. Owner Nieshia Williams plans to open each morning at 5:00am selling hot coffee, fresh scones and muffins. She chose Kennedy Street because she believes “every neighborhood should have the opportunity to have fresh food using superior ingredients.”

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Roosevelt pool entry construction continues, opening date TBD

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Roosevelt pool entry construction continues, opening date TBD

Construction is almost complete at the new pool entry at Roosevelt High School.

Petworth News reached out to DCPS who confirmed that work on the entrance is scheduled to be completed by the end of May.

However, according to a spokesperson for the Department of Parks of Recreation, they currently have no plans to open to the public.

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Roses and flowers bloom with Spring around Petworth

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Roses and flowers bloom with Spring around Petworth

May always means Roses, and this year is no different. I’m not sure I’ve walked a single block without seeing at least one in the last week. It’s easy to see why the State flower of DC was chosen to be a rose! White, yellow and all shades of red are on display for the next few weeks.

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Your greatest lifestyle desires can be found at Cookie Wear on Upshur Street

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Your greatest lifestyle desires can be found at Cookie Wear on Upshur Street

Cookie Wear now sells a wide variety of crafts and kitsch, ranging from Noodles’s signature t-shirts to repurposed furniture designed with photos of celebrities — including Bob Ross, Michael Jackson and David Bowie. Noodles and her daughter Candace also sell everyday essential lifestyle needs like bracelets, coffee mugs and Funko pops. Noodles’s store also sells iconic DC-based t-shirt designers including For the Culture, Grind Stone and Glass of Water.

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For local chefs, home cooking takes on new meaning

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For local chefs, home cooking takes on new meaning

While restaurants around the country are struggling to stay open, local chefs and bakers are getting inventive. People are bringing their love of food home with them and starting take-out restaurants that operate in their kitchen. The Petworth area has several at-home businesses that started during the pandemic. Here’s three ways you can get some amazing food and support neighbors…

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New senior apartments nearing completion on Kennedy Street

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New senior apartments nearing completion on Kennedy Street

When complete, the five-story building will have 38 units of affordable rental housing with approximately 1,044 square feet of ground floor retail. There will be seven parking spaces in the building, and all 38 units will be income-restricted to seniors age 55+ earning between 30-50% adjusted median income.

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Chicatana brings a unique Mexican cuisine to 14th Street

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Chicatana brings a unique Mexican cuisine to 14th Street

Ants are not the only item on the menu at Chicatana but they are by far the most unusual.

Opened mid-April, Chicatana (located at 3917 14th St NW) has joined a block bursting with more casual Mexican restaurants such as Anejo and DC Corazon. With Mexican-inspired murals and colorful hanging lights, the cozy interior of Chicatana can almost make one forget they are still in the District. What sets Chicatana apart is their trompo and upscale contemporary Mexican cuisine.

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Take a garden tour of Shepherd Park

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Take a garden tour of Shepherd Park

As part of this year’s Garden Tour, fourteen gardens, most owned by private citizens within the DC neighborhoods of Shepherd Park, Colonial Village and North Portal Estates, will be open for self-guided tours on Sunday, May 16th, 2:00-5:00pm.

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Where to go for Cinco de Mayo

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Where to go for Cinco de Mayo

It goes without saying that a great way to celebrate Mexican-American culture is to check out some of the Petworth area’s amazing Mexican restaurants. Here are a few that have specials for the Cinco de Mayo holiday…

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