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The neighborhood music is coming back, and the organizers are looking for bands to perform, porches to host, and volunteers and sponsors to help the event run smoothly.
Read MoreThere are many ways to reduce your environmental footprint right here in your neighborhood. Claudia Fabiano, who works for the Environmental Protection Agency on reducing food waste and is part of the DC Food Recovery Working Group, helped compile this guide to reduce waste, give items a second life by reusing, and when neither of those are options, to recycle, compost and properly dispose of waste in the District, and particularly in the Petworth neighborhood.
Read MoreThe National Hip-Hop Museum claims it has acquired one of the largest hip-hop collections in history, including what owner Jeremy Beaver claims to be the world’s largest hip-hop sneaker collection, the world’s largest signed hip-hop vinyl collection, and the world’s largest signed hip-hop microphone collection. His museum presents each of these collections individually in rotations as a part of The House of Hip-Hop Art Gallery on Georgia Avenue in Shaw.
Read MoreThe Petworth Library is sponsoring a Young People’s Art Contest for Black History Month. Young people ages 5-19 are invited to participate and share the ways that they feel informed, encouraged and inspired by Black history. Winners will be selected from three categories: teens (13-19), school-age children (9-12), and young children (5-8).
Read MoreThe Board of Directors of Uptown Community Initiative (aka Uptown Main Street) is recruiting new Board members to join the Petworth Main Street board to represent Petworth. The UMS Main Street programs serve Upshur Street from 8th to 13th Streets, Georgia Avenue between Upshur St and Missouri Ave, Upper 14th Street (from Spring Road to Longfellow Street), and Kennedy Street (from 14th to North Capitol Street).
Read MoreCommonwealth Cantina, the new restaurant by Homestead owner Nic Makris, is giving next door neighbor Qualia Coffee a new home for the next six months as their building is renovated. It’s created a great synergy for the morning and lunch crowds.
Read MoreThe DC Council will host nine meetings on redistricting of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions and their Single Member Districts. You can register to speak at an upcoming public meeting.
Read MoreLocal agent Marc Dosik takes a look at the year behind us, and what’s coming up in 2022 in a real estate market that is still making history.
Read MoreLast year, DC Water estimated that the city had 28,000 service lines with lead pipes. In 2019, DC Water launched the Lead Free DC initiative to remove all lead services lines by 2030. The last time that Petworth News wrote about this initiative in 2016, residents were responsible for the cost of replacing the lines on their property.
Now, DC Water has programs in place to make the cost of replacement either free or discounted to residents. If you haven’t replaced your pipes and you need to, it’s the right time to get it taken care of. Here are the steps you should take…
Read MoreAntoinette Lee, a native Washingtonian, received her first sewing machine at age 13 and has been sewing ever since. She left her federal job to pursue her hobby full-time in 2002 and has spent the next decade and a half sewing and teaching with different local sewing stores. After encouragement from her students, she launched her own studio, A Special Lee, here in Petworth in 2017.
Read MoreWhat started with two masks being offered to teens has now become a much larger effort to get masks into the hands — and on the faces — of those who need them. Ryan Gill is helping people in Ward 4 get the N95 masks they need.
Read MoreOn Christmas morning before our extended family gathering, my immediate family all took rapid COVID-19 tests per the extended family agreement. My oldest child’s test was positive. I immediately thought… “F*ck.” There started two weeks of quarantine and trying to find activities to occupy my two kids. Here’s some of the COVID-safe things we did.
Read MoreAfter a long period of renovation, delays and Covid, Honeymoon Chicken is set to open at the corner of Upshur and Georgia Avenue (4201 Georgia Avenue NW).
Check out their menu. (Students and their families get an after-school discount.)
Read MoreWorking as a real estate agent and broker, Alexes Haggins thought that her family’s history in flowers was likely behind her. Then one day in the recent past she found herself arranging a bouquet for a client at the real estate company where she worked, and that simple project rekindled her passion for flowers and floral arrangements. Alexes is reopening the flower store on Upshur Street that her father last closed in 2003.
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