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By RANDY FLETCHER — There are certain smells that take me back to my childhood and make me think of my grandparents. Coffee is one of them. My grandmother had three percolators going all the time: one in the kitchen, one next to the davenport in the TV room, and another one in the master bath.
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By PETE PICHASKE — On a bitterly cold night in late January, a couple of dozen men enjoyed a hot dinner and a cot to sleep on in the warm basement of the University Park Church of the Brethren. Most of the men were homeless, spending the night in the church to escape the frigid temperatures. The
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By PAUL HRUSA — The latest hallway-as-gallery concept in the Arts District is Portico, housed in the front of the Studio 3807 apartment complex at the corner of Rhode Island Ave and 38th Street in Brentwood. Hopefully this proximity of art to residency results in more collectors and patrons of
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Dear Miss Floribunda, I have decided to plant a pollinator-friendly garden this year. However, I suspect that this is trickier than most of us think. For instance, I visited a honeybee sanctuary last summer and saw bees simply swarming around in a tall stand of catnip. That’s great, but
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By LAUREN FLYNN KELLY — The people at Netflix wisely uploaded the bingeworthy home show “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” at the start of the new year, when so many resolve to live more minimally. But what they may not have expected was an audience of furloughed government workers, many living
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By HEATHER WRIGHT — As 2018 ebbs away, we take this opportunity to look across the expanse of the receding year, reflecting on what we as a community lost and what we gained. Goodbye In 2018, we said goodbye to a number of people who served the City of Hyattsville long and well. In July, two
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By FRED SEITZ — Walking along the Trolley Trail the last week in December, I noticed some familiar green shoots vigorously coming up. Then on New Year’s Day, I spotted a reddish spathe (a large sheathing bract enclosing the flower cluster) along the boardwalk in Magruder Swamp. The
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Dear Guilt-ridden Grinch, There’s something to be said for accepting loss philosophically. Let the fresh floral offerings give joy for as long as they are in bloom. Certainly no one expects a bottle of perfume — or even a “semi-edible” sausage or cheese — to last forever. If
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By JULIA GASPAR-BATES — Hyattsville resident Janine Dowden is no stranger to adversity. Growing up on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Dowden suffered trauma at age 12 when she survived a car accident that left burns on 65 percent of her body. “My aunt was living in Washington, so she assisted
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By KRISSI HUMBARD — My second-grader recently started learning about community in his social studies class. The dictionary defines community as “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common” and “a feeling of fellowship with others,
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