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Read MorePetworth Peanuts invites you to the 4th Annual Petworth Pride in the Park on Saturday, June 14th, 10am – 12pm at Sherman Circle.
Read MoreThe Home Rule Music Festival, sponsored by HR Records on Kennedy Street NW, has quickly become of the most popular music festivals in DC. It’s back for another amazing show at the Parks at Walter Reed on June 21, 2025!
The Festival is free to attend, and you can enter for a chance to win a pair of VIP tickets!
Read MoreThe Parks at Walter Reed has quickly become a cultural hub for upper NW DC, and now has more than 100 community events and activities planned on the Parks’ lush green spaces, including markets, world-class music, festivals and weekly fitness classes.
Read MoreThe DC Department of Transportation (DDOT) recently released their final Notice of Intent outlining the safety design changes they want to install around Grant Circle. DDOT is accepting community comments until June 12, 2025. If their timelines hold this project should begin later this summer.
Read MoreJoin President Lincoln’s Cottage and the AFRH for free guided tours of the United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery on Memorial Day, May 26, 2025.
Read MoreThis year is the tenth anniversary of a festival that has become such a fan-favorite that it was named Best Music Festival in DC in the 2024 City Paper’s ‘Best of the City’ Readers-Choice Awards. All proceeds from the event will support the preservation of Abraham Lincoln’s beloved summer residence. Petworth readers can get a 10% discount code!
Read MorePetworth Peanuts and Ward 4 Mutual Aid are accepting donations of items for maternity, babies and children for the Mother's Day Free Market! They are accepting almost anything related to kids/babies/maternity in good condition.
Read MoreTimber Pizza’s sorely missed breakfast biscuit sandwiches are back, now at 201 Upshur Street NW, just a few blocks up the hill from their first restaurant at 809 Upshur Street NW.
Read MoreDue to the rain (and the way electric instruments hate water) the porch bands will move to Sunday, April 27th. Some of the times the bands will be playing has changed, so be sure to check the PorchFest website. The Main Stage of Petworth PorchFest will kick off at 5pm on Saturday, April 26th at Petworth Rec Center (801 Taylor Street NW).
Read MorePetworth PorchFest is Saturday, April 26th starting at 2pm on porches across the Petworth area. This year there are more than 300 bands playing at over 130 homes across the neighborhood, making this one the largest outdoor music festivals in DC.
Read More4-19-25: The park has been cleaned, and a new article with updates coming soon.
Spring break is here but neighborhood kids won’t get to play at the Park View Recreation Center playground, affectionately referred to as “ladybug playground” for the squat colorful statues that dot its center. That’s because the playground is closed for lead remediation, for the second time in two years.
Read MoreIn recent Advisory Neighborhood Commissions oversight hearing documents, the Office of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (OANC) notified the DC Council that Petworth’s ANC 4C was denied $18,540 in funding allotment for FY 2024. How did that happen?
Read MoreWhelp, just heard that the popular Petworth park at 8th and Taylor Streets NW is going to be expensive condominiums.
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Petworth News is a news site about Petworth area neighborhoods in Washington DC, written by Drew Schneider and other amazing contributing writers. It features facts and objective reporting, as well as an occasional subjective point of view and opinion.
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