Posts tagged Fairlawn
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This new Ward 8 group aims to engage residents in local transportation projects
Some Ward 8 residents have expressed frustration over lack of information about transportation projects in their area and opaque government processes. Now several local ANC commissioners are puttting together a group to help residents be more informed and engaged. Keep reading…
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Where could a small grocery store thrive in Ward 8?
The Yes! Organic Market in DC’s Fairlawn neighborhood has struggled to survive, and Anacostia’s only grocery store recently closed. Why can’t grocery stores thrive here? Mainly, economics. But one spot could work. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Grocery shopping
Nobody bikes for groceries?; No more Yes; Reduce car spaces, add bike spaces; Safety before ATC; More transit, fewer cars; No damage to Metro except pocketbook; Obama on transportation; And…. Keep reading…
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Lost Washington: Good Hope Road’s German orphanage
Good Hope Road SE, one of East Washington’s historic thoroughfares, has been home to many places now forgotten. While still a pastoral area the arterial road hosted, from the late 1800s into the 1960s, an orphanage for children of German ancestry, one such place with an obscured memory. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Colors and signs
Stand over there; Green means park; New signs for New York; Local AAA now says “share the road”; Yes! to Fairlawn; Since when is it about accountability?; Purple Line will run big in election; McDonnell backs tolls. Keep reading…