Via the North Main Streets Blog Bloomingdale is getting a new retail business at 1st & Rhode Island Avenue NW. The business, called Y.E.S.S.S. (Your Educational Supplies, Systems and Services), is offering affordable, high-quality school supplies and uniforms. The business owner is Ms. Octavia Jackson. There will be a grand opening reception this Sunday afternoon from … More School uniforms store at 108 RI Ave NW
Since Safe Shores will be moving near to our community, I thought it would be relevant to share some information about their program. It seems they are now housed at 300 E St NW. via Safe Shores: Program Statistics. Safe Shores 2008 Program Statistics FORENSIC SERVICES PROGRAM # of forensic interviews held 585 # of … More Safe Shores: Program Statistics
(Unofficial) Deborah Crain, Ward 5 Planner spoke. See this Ward 5 fact sheet she handed out about development plans in Ward 5. See this Fact Sheet that she handed out She stated that funding for planning has been severely cut (I think she said normally there is $300,000 or $400,000 and this year there is … More Aug 3 BACA Meeting Minutes
Big thanks to Margaret on P St for compiling this list for us! Also see InShaw’s post on How to tell your neighor they owe taxes! The “Notice of Real Property Tax Sale” was published by DC OTR on July 23. It announces the auction date of September 9th to 11th, 2009. Properties in … More Properties in our area on the 2009 Tax Sale list
Nice to see Yoga District — which has a studio on Bloomingdale’s 1st Street NW business strip — and its owner, Jasmine Chehraz — get mentioned in this 8/6/2009 Washington Post article. (Caryn adds: Also to see the philosophy behind Yoga District, see this WP article from 2008). Activists Aim to Make Yoga an Exercise … More WP mentions Yoga District activists
The August 2009 Hill Rag is now out. Each month , there is a report from each of Ward 6’s four ANC’s. Here is an item from the ANC 6C report regarding the Bundy School at 400 P St NW (which is located in Ward 2.) Commissioners Support Bundy Compromise Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6C took … More Hill Rag: ANC 6C’s vote to support Bundy dog park
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On 8/2/2009, I posted here the announcement that the DC Council had authorized the land disposition of Northwest One. A follow up question by “Barefootvet” at the DC BACA blog was then posted: “So does anyone out there know how this land disposition fits into the larger development schedule for Northwest One? Does this mean … More What’s Next for the Northwest One Project?
The dog park people should be happy with this announcement. … More Press on LeDroit’s Gage-Eckington School park groundbreaking
DC Humanities Council doing some hip outreach at Bus Boys and Poets Please join the Humanities Council of Washington, DC for its new Humanitini series, where young professionals can come together to discuss the issues of the day that are relevant to themselves and their community, in a relaxed atmosphere. We will be discussing, Death … More is dating dead?
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