Enjoy free music on Upshur Street with Summer Saturdays
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Petworth Summer Saturdays is a new live music series on the 800 block of Upshur Street in front of Willow Fashion on Saturdays from 5-7pm from July 10 – September 18.
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Flor Del Soul makes flowers grow at Femme Fatale DC
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Working years as a Federal Contractor for the Children’s Bureau, Karissa Ruano worked tirelessly to better the lives of families and children. While she loved the job, working in the child welfare field can be exhausting. It was this fatigue that propelled Karissa to explore her creative side through a part time job at the Petworth flower shop She Loves Me. From there, she ended up accidentally starting her own, now successful business, Flor Del Soul.
Read MoreCelebrate Pride month on 14th Street this weekend with a ton of local specials
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Uptown Main Street, Solar Solution, and a dozen uptown small businesses will celebrate Pride Month with the Wear Your Pride Block Party on Saturday, June 5 from 11am - 4:30pm starting at at 4700 14th Street NW.
Read MoreNew condos finally coming to 8th & Upshur after years of false starts
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The corner house at 4127 8th Street NW has been the topic of debate and discussion for years. Sitting on a large corner lot along Upshur and 8th Streets, it was a beautiful detached single family home built in 1915.
It’s now set to be six condos offering 2 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom units.
Read MoreA shooting, a collision and a teenager killed
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I was sitting up in my home office around 11:50am on Friday when I heard a loud crash, and thought, “Wow, that sounds more severe than a fender bender.” So I ran downstairs and out the front door, looked down the block and saw a small white Honda Civic crashed head-on into my neighbor’s SUV. “Oh man.”
Read MoreWin free tickets to Bourbon & Bluegrass with Lincoln's Cottage!
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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!
Read MoreNew West school building will open this fall and will be DC’s first "Net-Zero" school
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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.
Read MoreAfter years with no HVAC, in the midst of a pandemic, Powell parents have reached their boiling point
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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.
Read MoreFound at the library: One woman’s remembrance of growing up in 1920s Petworth
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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.”
Read MoreGetting a Main Street designation can help Petworth businesses
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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.
Read MoreRoosevelt pool entry construction continues, opening date TBD
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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.
Read MoreRoses and flowers bloom with Spring around Petworth
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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.
Read MoreYour greatest lifestyle desires can be found at Cookie Wear on Upshur Street
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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.
Read MoreFor local chefs, home cooking takes on new meaning
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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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Join President Lincoln’s Cottage on September 19, from 10am to 2pm, for their free annual Homecoming celebration inspired by the Lincoln family’s time living on the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home, here in the Petworth neighborhood.