Posts tagged Community Gardens
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Morning bell: Community schools may get the axe, but a school farm gets a reprieve
Nipping community schools in the bud?: This year DC funded a new program that uses schools as hubs for providing social services, but there’s no funding in next year’s proposed budget to sustain or expand the effort just as it’s getting off the ground. (DCFPI) Reprieve for farm at DCPS school: A one-acre urban farm at the Walker-Jones Education Campus off North… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The 27% Solution
Dead heat; Gray wouldn’t resign; Will new residents matter?; Park, not parking; Rethinking Rosslyn; One capital tower; Clear snow in MoCo?; A different kind of biker crash; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What does Petworth need?
Bus lanes aren’t easy; Build your own Circulator; The future of DC retail; Creepy condo; College Park bikeshare delayed; Blades of steel; Black soot; Greenbelt gardens; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Is safety the concern?
Dooring still legal; Tough on snow?; MD and VA drivers owe DC big bucks; Community garden or parking?; Getting the vote; Another try for gas station condos; Don’t count on the feds; Third Church coming down; Is Google for distracted driving?; And…. Keep reading…
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Hillcrest residents turn tennis courts into gardens
Vacant for years, the tennis courts at the Fairfax Village condominium in Hillcrest were choked with weeds and litter. Last week, residents and volunteers came together to transform it into a community garden and gathering space. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Getting serious about parks
Tourmobile’s end “likely”; A tale of two parks; Numerology of bus transit; DC’s gays live closer to downtown; Maryland and counties duel on Smart Growth; Floridians run for their lives; Suburban poverty rising; The ultimate environmentally destructive highway; Capital cities unfairly reviled; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Rapturous applause
DC history takes to the stage; Metro repairs next weekend; Bus protects passengers; Montreal rescues Bixi; Ohio debates sprawl; They paved a park and put up a parking lot; Build bike lanes in Queens; And…. Keep reading…
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Earth Day brings new community park & garden to Hill East
What does it look like when a group of neighbors, a non-profit or two, a couple of federal agencies and a handful of DC government offices partner effectively? Swing by 13th & C Streets SE, and see for yourself. Nearly four years after neighbors rallied to turn a vacant lot owned by the DCHA into a community park and garden, twenty to thirty volunteers gathered to plant nine trees… Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: What are we paying for?
VDOT leases cheap spaces, builds expensive ones; Police search bags while mob attacks riders; Senators ask for Florida HSR money; Philanthropy in all the wrong places?; Community garden plots in demand and disrepair; DC’s arena might have gone to the suburbs; Driver mows down Critical Mass riders; “War” rhetoric over half a percent; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Laws police don’t enforce
Police assume cyclist at fault; Police don’t punish their own; Barracks solution possible but complex; “This is a New Jersey-bound 7 train”?; Let them build roads, says Post; AJC unabashedly deserts city of Atlanta; And…. Keep reading…