Play "Trivia Night for Charity" and win great prizes on MayDay!

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Play "Trivia Night for Charity" and win great prizes on MayDay!

Between the stresses of working from home (or being furloughed or laid off), taking care of kids (or being alone), how about an evening of fun trivia with your neighbors where you can win some awesome gift certificates?! (Online trivia, naturally.)

You’re invited to join the Petworth News Trivia Night for Charity on May 1st, from 8:30 to 10pm. The top ten players will win a gift certificate from one of our local sponsors. It’s fun, it’s challenging, it’s for a good cause!

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Celebrate Petworth is cancelled due to an abundance of caution

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Celebrate Petworth is cancelled due to an abundance of caution

The Celebrate Petworth street festival has been an ongoing event in the neighborhood for the past 8 years. But not this year. In the time of COVID-19, there’s too many uncertainties.

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Businesses find ways to stay relevant and make money during stay-at-home orders

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Businesses find ways to stay relevant and make money during stay-at-home orders

"How is it going for you?," I asked each owner, referring to their storefronts being closed while the need to generate money still a real need. Having to be closed at a time when people are both being told to stay home, and some really valid anxiety is keeping them home, is a reality businesses never even considered before the pandemic came to DC.

This is a two-part series looking at the ways local businesses and restaurants are working to stay financially afloat while also supporting community needs. Part one looked at restaurants.

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President Lincoln's Cottage draws strength from the Petworth community in a difficult time

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President Lincoln's Cottage draws strength from the Petworth community in a difficult time

President Lincoln's Cottage closed to the public in mid-March and is not yet announcing a reopening date. As easy as it was to make the decision to close — for the safety of the veterans who are our closest neighbors, for our team, and for the whole community — it’s hard to not be able to use the Cottage as a place for people to gather around a shared hope and purpose.

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Local restaurants find ways to be creative in making revenue and supporting the community

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Local restaurants find ways to be creative in making revenue and supporting the community

With the stay-at-home order, restaurants and businesses have had to either close or find creative ways to keep revenue coming in so they can pay staff, pay rent and other bills. While some restaurants have closed, others are offering different curbside pickup and delivery options, while some businesses have transitioned to online sales and classes.

This is a two part series looking at the ways local businesses and restaurants are working to stay financially afloat while also supporting community needs. Part one looks at restaurants.

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April showers bring crabapples, tulips, magnolias and more as Petworth blooms

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April showers bring crabapples, tulips, magnolias and more as Petworth blooms

If you’ve found yourself walking around our beautiful neighborhood admiring the flowers and wondering what you’re looking at, we’re here to help. Welcome to "Petworth Blooming,” a popular series featuring some of the most common plants and flowers seen around Petworth.

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During a global pandemic, someone actually stole a large, heavy... ceramic turtle?

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During a global pandemic, someone actually stole a large, heavy... ceramic turtle?

A homeowner on Kansas Avenue NW, near Quincy and Randolph, reported that someone (or a couple of someones?) stole a large ceramic planter from her front yard in the middle of the night. The planter was full of soil and a plant, and at about 2 1/2 feet long and a foot and a half tall, was pretty heavy.

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Spring cleaning? You may find pieces of your family history

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Spring cleaning? You may find pieces of your family history

They say that the only people who like “hoarders” — people who don’t ever throw things out — are genealogists.

It’s because of materials that I found in relative's homes in Petworth and Park View that I've been able to tell stories about my ancestors.

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A new GoFundMe and volunteer effort helps with rent, food and more for Ward 4

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A new GoFundMe and volunteer effort helps with rent, food and more for Ward 4

One of the latest iterations of people helping people is a new GoFundMe set up by Petworth resident Katie Hamm, to help residents financially impacted by the economic fallout of the closures due to the novel coronavirus.

According to Katie, the GoFundMe is only part of a wider mutual aid network that’s been set up across DC.

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List of local restaurants offering pick-up and delivery options during Covid

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List of local restaurants offering pick-up and delivery options during Covid

It’s a hard time to work for or run a business. Any business. With social distancing now the de facto law of the land, local area business are scrambling to figure out ways to make money so they can pay employees. Most are closing, offering gift certificates to help them stay afloat. Here’s a list of some local businesses and restaurants and how you can help.

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Op-Ed: Parents succeed in getting DC to install a safer surface for Petworth playground

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Op-Ed: Parents succeed in getting DC to install a safer surface for Petworth playground

Thanks to the advocacy of parents in our community, the renovation of the Petworth Playground will include a wood fiber surface instead of a poured-in-place rubber surface. We couldn’t be more excited for the expected reopening this summer. I know my family is going to appreciate the two adjacent playgrounds for different ages, the shade structures and birthday pavilion. The new surface will fit the nature theme nicely. And yes, for the first time, we will have swings!

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Sign up for a Petworth litter cleanup on March 28th

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Sign up for a Petworth litter cleanup on March 28th

On March 28th, from 9am to noon, you can join fellow volunteers to help clean up several spots around the neighborhood — you can even help choose the locations.

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A bloody February: Repeated gun violence leaves Petworth shaken and frustrated

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A bloody February: Repeated gun violence leaves Petworth shaken and frustrated

Petworth has been rocked by nine shootings over the last month, most of them in broad daylight. Residents are upset, wanting to know why these acts of violence keep happening. Are they gang related? Targeted violence and “street beefs”? What’s going on, and what can they do?

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Two weeks of violence: Shootings, safety and what comes next for Petworth

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Two weeks of violence: Shootings, safety and what comes next for Petworth

On the afternoon of Saturday, February 1st, a car drove past the Petworth playground at 8th and Taylor Streets NW, shots rang out from the car, children and parents dove for cover under slides, and a young man was shot in the foot. He’s not talking about what happened.

In the early evening of Thursday, February 13th, MPD was involved in a shootout with a suspect in an alley off of 8th and Upshur. At least six shots rang out, residents walking home dove for cover, an officer was injured, and after a pursuit with police, a young man was gravely shot.

Bookends of violence.

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