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Glover Park Serial Armed Robber Caught!
Glover Park has experienced eight violent crimes in the past couple of months. This is a disturbing and unusual number considering there...
Chris Jones
Jan 30, 2024
Glover Park Home Prices Peak?
If you climb mountains or simply hike mountainous areas you know the feeling of cresting a ridge only to see another peak in the...
Chris Jones
Jan 19, 2024
Winds of Change for Glover Park Business
Charles Darwin wrote, “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to...
Chris Jones
Jan 5, 2024
Crime Time in Glover Park
Crime in Glover Park surged 24% in 2023 compared to 2022, and this time the increase was not due to car break-ins, though that crime does...
Chris Jones
Jan 1, 2024
Wildlife and Death in Glover Park
This article is all about cute little bunny rabbits – and rainbows and unicorns and pink cotton candy. OK not those last three; and the...
Chris Jones
Dec 13, 2023
Glover Park Traffic Cams II - Rise of the Machines
That fateful day on March 3rd, 2021, when the machines became self-aware and began targeting their car-driving adversaries, seemed like...
Chris Jones
Nov 5, 2023
Upcoming Events in Glover Park
Champagne, music, carnival, Tai Chi and a date with your neighborhood cops are on the calendar in the weeks to come in Glover Park. Sign...
Chris Jones
Sep 30, 2023
Paint Store Replaces Laliguras
Demolition has begun at the Calvert Center at 2332 Wisconsin Avenue to make way for Sherwin Williams, a paint store opening soon in...
Chris Jones
Sep 15, 2023
The British Got Our Tunlaw Tree!
Many people quickly recognize that Tunlaw Road in Glover Park is “walnut” spelled backwards. Such a word is not technically a palindrome...
Chris Jones
Sep 3, 2023
Good Guys in Hot Water Again
Good Guys, a strip club at 2311 Wisconsin Avenue which has been in business since the 1960’s, is in hot water again with Glover Park’s...
Chris Jones
Aug 24, 2023
Glover Park Ranks in Best of DC
The annual Washington City Paper “Best of DC” results are in, and Glover Park shines in many categories. WCP took a breather during Covid...
Chris Jones
Aug 20, 2023
New Glover Park Gear is Here!
Grab your new Glover Park gear here on the Glover Park website! The design comes in two styles: classic distressed white print and the...
Chris Jones
Aug 18, 2023
Glover Park Business NOT on Vacation
Business gets done in Glover Park even in the hot, lazy summer. A new restaurant opens; an old restaurant seeks alcohol; a gym clarifies...
Chris Jones
Aug 6, 2023
Hurricane Force Hits Glover Park
A rare and very intense hurricane-force storm swept through Glover Park around 4:30 pm today causing extensive damage from felled trees...
Chris Jones
Jul 29, 2023
I Got Slimed in Glover Park
Have you been walking the neighborhood recently when suddenly your shoes seem to stick to the sidewalk? You try to wipe them off on the...
Chris Jones
Jun 18, 2023
Get Religion in Glover Park
Alex: “Ken, you go first in Double Jeopardy.” Ken Jennings: “I’ll take Religion in Glover Park for $400, Alex.” Alex: “It’s the number of...
Chris Jones
May 12, 2023
Cops, Schools and Buses in Glover Park
Spring is budget season in Washington DC – everyone’s favorite time of year! The city’s proposed FY 2024 budget, as well as the...
Chris Jones
Apr 27, 2023
Pot Store Opens Anyway in Glover Park
Late last summer, Glover Park’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC3B) voted to oppose the applications of two Medical Marijuana...
Chris Jones
Mar 27, 2023
All About Burger Closes
All About Burger at 2414 Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park has closed. The owners, Ebrahim (Abraham) and Mohammad Esfahani, made no...
Chris Jones
Mar 21, 2023
Out, In and Up in the Air in Glover Park
Three new businesses are looking to hang a sign in Glover Park (remember to get that sign permit), two have packed up and left, and a...
Chris Jones
Feb 18, 2023
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