Howard Bray, a writer, educator and public affairs activist, and longtime resident of Washington, D.C., died on Saturday, June 28, 2025. He was 96 and suffered from heart disease. Bray, a native of Albany, N.Y., and graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, began his career in newspaper newsrooms, with posts in Cape Girardeau, Mo.,…
Patricia Bullinger. She lived on MacArthur Boulevard, near Q Street. Did you know her? I didn’t. Not in life. In death, she became famous, as in a name known to strangers. More than three months have passed since her demise at the busy intersection of Foxhall Road and Q Street. But much about the circumstances…
There’s the celebrated Washington, D.C., of grand acts on the national and global stage. And there’s the nearer life of the city itself. In the Civil War’s wake, an African American community sprouted in Anacostia and thrived. It was called Barry Farm. There was room enough for house and garden, and orchards and farms that…
The removal of protest signs more than a week ago from a Hardy Park fence leaves a whodunit. But one city agency provided a clue about who didn’t do it. “I’m unable to find any information to suggest that MPD removed the signs,” a Metropolitan Police Department public affairs specialist, Alaina Gertz, told Potomac Times…
Signs protesting a city government plan for a new school on Hardy Park land were cleared off a Park entrance fence sometime over this past weekend. The signs, posted at Q and 45th streets, near Foxhall Road, had been accumulating for months, with growing concern about the Park’s future. “So far, I don’t believe anyone…
(This article originally appeared in the November 2020 edition of the Foxhall Community Citizens Association newsletter.) Key sites along the east end of MacArthur Boulevard are in play. A blank slate now occupies the site where a 15,000-square-foot Safeway store once stood, leaving the Palisades with no large, full-service grocery. Developers have gained approval to…
The way has been cleared to tear down the abandoned trolley trestle that spans the south end of Glover Archbold National Park. In September 2020, the Mayor’s Agent for historic preservation in D.C. issued the demolition permit sought by WMATA, which oversees the trestle and right of way. Mayor’s Agent J. Peter Byrne, who in…
Getting emptied bottles and jars back into the furnace for recreation presents a knotty quest. People’s capacity for home waste manipulation, environmental laws, market forces and logistics all play a role. But the cleaner the glass stays the better. It makes a critical difference for a beer-based program involving an Iowa distributor and a Missouri glass recycler, as well as a Minnesota container maker that might be the last still taking glass directly from the public.
Sale of Georgetown Day School’s MacArthur Boulevard campus, expected to be completed at the end of this month, has been delayed. Closing of the deal, in the works for the past 2.5 years, has been put off “a couple” or “a few” months, GDS Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Houser said today. He said the buyer…
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