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We bought a collapsible green screen with stand during the early days of the pandemic and used it once. It's been sitting in the corner of our living room ever since. It is free for pick up--reach out if you're interested. Please pass this along to any teachers/AV types you know who might be able to make use of it. The link the exact one we bought is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087223LMZ?ref_=ppx_hzod_title_dt_b_fed_asin_title_0_0 In case the link isn't working, it is currently selling for $128, and is described as: EMART 107" Green Screen Stand, Professional Chromakey Background with Auto-Locking Frame, Collapsible Portable Backdrop with Adjustable Tripod, Fast Fold Designed for Game, Stream, Video

Dear friends and neighbors, I’m not sure how I got on this mailing list. But if you know anyone interested in attending this esoteric discussion, please feel free to forward. Thanks Charlotte Charlotte Schoeneman Mobile/WhatsApp 301.270.1801 GVoice 240.350.1482 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Washington Post <washpostlive@...> Date: Tue, May 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM Subject: Post Next: Manufacturing with Sen. Young, Rep. McCaul and Barbara Humpton, 5/15 To: <cs@...> On Thursday, May 15 SAVE YOUR SEAT The drive to revive U.S. manufacturing has been at the center of national policy shifts about international trade and tariffs. On behalf of The Washington Post, you are invited to Post Next: Manufacturing, a series of discussions with top lawmakers and business leaders about how America invests in the industries and workforce of the future. Details Thursday, May 15 8:15 a.m. Breakfast & Coffee Networking 9:00 a.m. Program Location The Washington Post 1301 K Street NW Washington, D.C. Registration is required to attend. This email contains news or other information about an event from Washington Post Live, the live journalism division of The Washington Post. If you no longer wish to receive these emails related to Washington Post Live events, please click the unsubscribe link below. The Washington Post | 1301 K Street NW, Washington D.C., 20071 Unsubscribe

A credit card with the name Suzanne Williams was found on Allegheny Ave. Let us know if you know who it belongs to. John on Allegheny

Can anyone use these 7 or so black, 2 blue, and a yellow Epson 200 cartridges. I'll be back home late this afternoon if anyone is interested. geokohl12@.... -- George Kohl 7000 Westmoreland Ave, Mobile: 301-318-0258

Hello Ward 3 neighbors, This update has these color-coded headlines for each of the following topics: This week’s upcoming City Council meeting agenda. Community outreach for Piney Branch Elementary School (PBES) renovation. Progress in response to Cooper v. Takoma Park legal settlement. Progress on Performance Measurement initiative. First Readings of Ordinances accepting grants for public art and computers. Work Session on procuring a smart control system for Community Center HVAC. Work Session on a traffic study for the New Hampshire Gardens neighborhood. Anticipated finalization of City Council Priorities for the 2025-26 two-year term. Neighborhood issue updates and requests for information/help from you. News, invitations, and announcements. It was good to get some rain over the past 24 hours, and I hope that allergy sufferers have gotten some temporary relief from the high pollen counts. - Click here for a searchable archive of previous updates. - 1. This week’s City Council meeting. Here’s the agenda for this week’s Council meeting. As always, you can sign up to comment via Zoom – the link for signing up can be found on the agenda. We will get a third-quarter financial report for FY25 (through March 31). Then we will move on to a lengthy set of preliminary or final votes related to: the FY26 budget the FY26 property tax rate (which will, as you probably know by now, be unchanged at $0.5522 per $100 assessed value) grants for public art refurbishment and computer purchases (see #5 below) procurement of HVAC system improvements (see #6 below) and a Ward 6 traffic study (see #7 below) a resolution authorizing a grant application for the Purple Line Connector project (for a safe link between the Takoma-Langley Crossroads station and the New Hampshire Avenue bikeway) a resolution confirming the Council’s choices of FY26 traffic-calming and sidewalk projects potentially, a resolution to adopt City Council Priorities for the current term (see #8 below) We will also convene as the Stormwater Management Board to vote on the budget and stormwater fee rate for FY26. During the budget process, I agreed during the budget process with the idea of increasing that rate by $5 per 500 square feet of impervious area, from $25 to $30, with an objective of addressing urgent mitigation needs more rapidly. I remain committed to exploring ways for residents to take better advantage of County-offered rebates for rain gardens, and I will advocate for a clear-eyed examination of the pros and cons of relinquishing municipal control over stormwater management. Finally, we will have a Work Session to review a draft Resolution establishing the Council Compensation Committee. 2. Community outreach for Piney Branch Elementary School (PBES) renovation. Main points: A study is underway, looking at options for renovation of PBES. Most likely, work will commence in the 2028-29 school year and require two years. Initially, consultants have said that the County has ruled out construction of a new school behind the current one or at another nearby site. Therefore, most likely students would be bused to another holding campus for two years. Renovation options include the possibility that the community pool could be discontinued. Residents are urged to participate in one or more of the three remaining community meetings (5/15. 5/29. 6/4). In detail: We found out less than two weeks ago that Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has contracted with a consultant to study options for the renovation of Piney Branch Elementary School (PBES). These renovations would be focused primarily on updating the building and campus to increase its functionality, including such aspects as the provision of natural light to classrooms, the separation of bus traffic from drop-off traffic, improved access to the park and play area behind the school, and better flow between levels, including possible removal of the split-level floor configuration. The thinking as of now is that renovations might add capacity for about 25 additional students but would not be focused on capaci

Hello all, I'd like to make everyone aware of a shooting that took place Wednesday evening in the block of DC before the traffic light at Eastern and Kansas. My son was driving home from work late (10) and someone shot out the window of a row house at his car, randomly, breaking the vent glass in the rear seat driver's side window. Three feet and my son would have been shot, certainly wounded, possibly killed depending on where the shot landed. He called the police, gave his location as Takoma Park, several cruisers from Takoma Park showed up in minutes, but had no jurisdiction. The DC police arrived-one patrol car-over an hour later. The DC police called it "misdemeanor property damage" and declined to investigate further, despite my son knowing which row of houses the shot came from. He's out $700 in repairs (the car is 20 years old, and while in great shape, he declined to get comprehensive, and anyway it would have been a $500 deductible). Does anyone have any idea how to escalate this? It was most likely someone young. Even if no one has any ideas, please be aware when driving in that block. This could be you. Thanks Carol on Allegheny

Hi, friends and neighbors. My good friend just moved into an apartment and needs to furnish and outfit it. If you have any of the items below in good to excellent condition, please contact Olivier. Phone: 301-792-9559 Best to text first. Email: olivierbouyom@... As always, many thanks, Greg Items Requested Dresser Bedside table Wooden shelves -- small or large Dining room table and four or more chairs Sofa Living room chairs Kitchenware in general -- pots, pans, cereal bowls, etc. Brita water pitcher Vacuum cleaner able to handle carpet

Dear WACO neighbors, here are a number of opportunities to support our local Meals on Wheels. Check out the silent auction site even if you can’t attend the dinner! Thank you. Enrica 6909 Westmoreland Avenue Begin forwarded message: From: Courtney Gardner <courtney@...> Date: April 25, 2025 at 3:11:05 PM EDT To: Courtney Gardner <courtney@...> Subject: Meals on Wheels TPSS Silent Auction is Live!! ? The Silent Auction is Now Live – and Don’t Forget Your Spaghetti Dinner Tickets! ? We’re thrilled to announce that the Silent Auction is officially open! Browse and bid on an incredible selection of items — from unique experiences to beautiful handcrafted treasures — all generously donated to support a wonderful cause. And don’t miss out on the fun! Join us for the Spaghetti Dinner (and the culmination of the silent auction) on Wednesday, May 7, from 5:00–8:30 PM — it's just around the corner! You can purchase your dinner tickets and start bidding here: https://ourfundraiser.link/MoW2025Auction Thank you for supporting Meals on Wheels — happy bidding and buon appetito! June 7: Meals on Wheels Day at the Ballpark! Come on out and join our Meals on Wheels team cheering on the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts on Saturday, June 7, game time 7pm, at Blair Baseball Stadium, 51 University Blvd East in Silver Spring. They’ll be playing the Olney Cropdusters – let’s cheer on our home team! Be sure to wear your Meals on Wheels swag (t-shirt, hat, whatever you’ve got) – and if you’ve got T-bolts gear, too, you can bring on a fashion mash-up! We’re able to offer 25 free tickets, first come/first serve. Once those are gone, tickets can be purchased for just $8 at the gate. And if you want even more Thunderbolts energy in your life, last we heard, they are still seeking 3 more host families for T-bolts players this summer. Contact Max Eckert, TboltsHostFamily@.... CLICK HERE to capture one of the free tickets or let us know you’re coming and will pay at the gate so we can save a seat for you. This is a great chance to have fun together (as we always do) and also introduce our program to more people in our community who may be interested in volunteering, referring clients, or supporting us in other ways. Meals on Wheels volunteers always have a great time when we get together – and this time, we’d like to take you out to the ballpark! Have a Hand to Lend? Do you enjoy fixing things or tackling small DIY projects? We need to add a couple of wonderful people to our too-small team of handyperson volunteers; people we can reach out to occasionally for help with light repairs or projects around our kitchen and office. This would be a huge support to fulfill our mission. We’ll contract out for anything major or heavy, but just need a little help from time to time with the small stuff to keep things rolling smoothly. Please let Rennie (rennie@...) know if you can join this small but mighty team! Courtney Gardner, Community Engagement Manager Meals on Wheels of Takoma Park/Silver Spring 7410 New Hampshire Avenue #100, Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301) 434-1922 www.mowtakoma.org

Arthur _______________ Begin forwarded message: From: Diana Kohn <kohn.diana@...> Subject: Reminder: Sunday, May 4 - Historic Takoma Reading Room & Preservation Workshop Date: May 3, 2025 at 2:50:08 PM EDT To: Emily van Loon <vanloon.emily@...>, tunis.catherine@..., Arthur <karpasa@...>, "To: Frederick Schultz" <fred@...>, Beth Baker <bethbaker@...>, Diana Kohn <diana@...> Appreciate your help posting this to your listserv ====================== Historic Takoma has two events this Sunday: Reading Room opens at 1 pm. Visitors have access to our reference books, collection of Takoma Voices and City newsletters and historical journals, with staff on hand to answer questions. --plus-- Disaster Preparedness Workshop for family heritage collections (3-5 pm) Historic Takoma and the Takoma Park Maryland Library present a talk on how to prepare for and respond to events that could damage your papers and photographs. Free and open to all. 7328 Carroll Avenue Diana Kohn for Historic Takoma Note: You can also read our May Newsletter here.

Arthur _______________ Begin forwarded message: From: Historic Takoma <info@...> Subject: REMINDER: Sunday, May 4 - Reading Room at 1 PM & Workshop, 3-5 PM Date: May 3, 2025 at 9:08:03 AM EDT To: <karpasa@...> Reply-To: Historic Takoma <info@...> View this email in your browserREMINDER: Sunday, May 4 Reading Room opens at 1 PM, Preservation Workshop from 3-5 PM Reading Room Sunday, 1-5 PM Visitors have access to our reference books, collection of Takoma Voices and City newsletters and historical journals, with staff on hand to answer questions. --PLUS-- Historic Takoma and the Takoma Park Maryland Library present a talk on how to prepare for and respond to events that could damage your papers and photographs. Copyright ? 2025 Historic Takoma, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a member of Historic Takoma. *|FOWARD|* Our mailing address is: Historic Takoma 7328 Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park, MDTakoma Park, MD 20912 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Greetings, WACO Neighbors: Our next WACO meeting will be held via zoom on Thursday, May 22 at 7:30 pm. We have invited several City staff to address traffic, parking and pedestrian issues in the WACO neighborhood. Council member Schlegel also will atned. More details and zoom coordinates to follow. In the meantime, please mark your calendar! Best regards, Bruce Moyer President, WACO

Arthur _______________ Begin forwarded message: From: Historic Takoma <info@...> Subject: Historic Takoma Newsletter - May 2025 Date: May 1, 2025 at 9:19:03 AM EDT To: <karpasa@...> Reply-To: Historic Takoma <info@...> View this email in your browserIn this issue.... Upcoming Events From the Archives Did You Know? Explore Historic Takoma Projects Support Historic TakomaHistoric Takoma Newsletter - May 2025 Historic Takoma House & Garden Tour "The Charm of North Takoma" Sunday, June 8, 1:00-5:00 PMJoin us for the self-guided tour and spend the afternoon exploring 10 houses in the North Takoma neighborhood. Tickets are $30, and will be available for purchase online in mid-May. More details here. Stop by Historic Takoma's storefront window exhibit to learn more about the architectural styles you will see on the tour.Takoma Park House & Garden Tour, 1973-2025This year's tour continues a tradition dating back to 1973. The idea for a Takoma Park House and Garden Tour that year was the brainchild of Takoma resident Ellen Marsh of Maple Avenue. Her goal was to celebrate the architectural wealth and landscape beauty of our community so that others would begin to cherish and protect it. And Takoma Park needed protecting.When Ellen and her young family moved to Takoma Park in 1963, Takoma was suffering from years of absentee landlords who had allowed properties to deteriorate and neighborhoods to become shabby. Now new families were moving in and renovating the aging old houses. Ths following year, however, the State of Maryland mandated a ten-lane North Central Freeway, which would have cut through the heart of town, taking all homes in its path, displacing 300 families. Residents led by Sammie Abbott and the city government pushed back. North Central Freeway's proposed route from city newsletter, December 1964 .The courts eventually ruled that highway financing be shifted to allow construction of the Metro mass transit system. Not surprisingly, developers were now targeting the aging houses in the blocks adjacent to the proposed Metro station. Meanwhile, in North Takoma, Montgomery College’s planned expansion threatened more old homes. This prompted Ellen Marsh to launch her idea for a tour. Neighbors were recruited and homeowners wooed to open their houses, reaching across the city in an effort to be as inclusive as practical. This first tour was an overwhelming success. It included 38 houses from North Takoma to New Hampshire Avenue. A single-page street map with house addresses was handed out for $1.50. By the 1974 tour, an official brochure featured town founder B.F. Gilbert's house, drawn by Sammie and Susan Abbott. Ellen and Allan Marsh wrote architectural and historic backgrounds on all 28 houses. The early house and garden tours played a part in helping residents to see the city in a new light. The city council began to support clean-up programs and approved the Project Turnaround designed to buy, restore and resell dilapidated houses in the 7100 block of Cedar Avenue. Thanks to the work of the Takoma Park Preservation Association, the city was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. And in 1983, Takoma Park became the largest historic district in Montgomery County, with resulting protections. The House and Garden Tour laid the groundwork for these designations. Historic Takoma, founded in 1979, officially took over coordinating the House and Garden Tour in 2002. Soon after, Historic Takoma purchased and renovated the storefront at 7328 Carroll as its headquarters, thanks to generous grants from the State of Maryland and Montgomery County. Since its opening in 2012, the building has served as public space for our programs and exhibits. It also houses Historic Takoma’s growing archives collection covering 100+ years of Takoma Park history. Proceeds from the House and Garden Tour are critical to maintaining this beautiful space. See you at this year's tour on Sunday, June 8. This article is an excerpt from Frances Phipp's longer history, which can be accessed here.Workshop on Preservation Sunday, May 4, 3:00-5:0

Our (every expensive) gas range has sprung a gas leak in one of its burners. Does anyone know of a good repair person for it. We called Washington Gas because the odor of gas in our house was so strong (and thanks to neighbor Becky for verifying the smell). Turned out to be a faulty burner. Kudos to the Washington Gas for responding so quickly. They checked out all of our gas appliances and found no other problems…. Bill Walnut Avenue

Does anyone in the neighborhood by chance have a wheelchair that my neighbor Maureen Taft-Morales here on Pine Avenue can borrow? If so, please call her at 301.802.9497. She needs it for a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning. Thanks alot Bob Gibson

?Shame on the City Council (minus you, Roger, and the reliably progressive and thoughtful Ward 1 rep, Jessica Landman) for barreling forward with the full-blown Atrium project that promises to be Takoma Park’s next embarrassing administrative infrastructure boondoggle. Rick

Hello Ward 3 neighbors, This update will focus on (A) community meetings on Piney Branch Elementary School renovation options (which could affect the Piney Branch Pool), (B) the City’s recent settlement of a sexual harassment/retaliation case, (C) the outcomes of last week’s final budget reconciliation session, and (D) the agenda for tonight’s City Council meeting. - Click here for a searchable archive of previous updates. - (A) Piney Branch Elementary School and Pool – your input needed at community meetings. Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is commencing a Feasibility Study examining possible options for renovating, expanding, and/or rebuilding Piney Branch Elementary School. Some of the options under consideration appear to involve removal of the Piney Branch Pool, which I strongly oppose. Please consider joining MCPS for one or more of the 4 community meetings below focused on the Piney Branch Elementary Feasibility Study. All of the meetings will be at the Piney Branch Elementary School Cafeteria. It is fine to join for one and not the others. Tomorrow night – Thursday, May 1: 7-8pm Thursday, May 15: 7-8pm Thursday, May 29: 7-8pm Wednesday, June 4: 7-8pm The City is not the organizer of these events, but it’s important for as many residents as possible to participate – including people who wish to express their views about the swimming pool. All options under consideration would use the existing site, small as it is, for any renovation of the school. Creative options for the site could include making a stronger connection to, and use of, the adjacent Montgomery Parks property (Ed Wilhelm Field). At the introductory presentation about this process last week, I asked whether an additional story could be added in conjunction with a new egress bridge or route out the back to the playground area. In my mind, this might be an approach that could add capacity without leading to the loss of the swimming pool. The response was that this could be a possibility. I plan to attend the community meeting on Thursday to propose this idea. The County webpage for the project can be found here. (B) City settlement of harassment and retaliation case. As you may know, City Council members were informed less than two weeks ago that the City had agreed to a settlement in a case alleging sexual harassment of a Police Department employee and subsequent retaliation on the part of other department members. The settlement was paid for via the City’s insurance policy. I did not have any prior knowledge of the details of this case. Last Wednesday, the City Council voted to go into closed session to discuss this matter. We spoke with the City’s two outside attorneys (one for general matters, one for matters involving unions) to discuss what facts and documents can be shared with the public without violating legal requirements for confidentiality and privacy under the MD Public Information Act (MPIA) and the Police Accountability Act (PAA). There are two separate threads involved: a police disciplinary proceeding, and a subsequent civil suit. Different procedures apply. I’m advocating with Council colleagues to get many questions answered. I’ve been awaiting clear guidance about what can be disclosed in this matter, which involves personnel, one a sworn police officer. Like you, I’ve seen the redacted complaint that the plaintiff’s attorneys made public, but I have not seen the settlement or any other details of the case. I’m confident that there will be more Council oversight. Things are moving at deliberate speed. Thank you for your vigilance and expressed outrage (which I share) about this case. In addition to many individual comments, the Council received a petition signed by over 165 residents, demanding answers. I am in solidarity with the concerns expressed in that letter. The safety of our residents and employees, the integrity of our City policies and practices, and the need for maximum transparency are all major concerns for me, and I will not set these issues aside. To answer a few of your questions that I believe I can answer: I

Just so no one here burns down my house or banishes me from the city, I read the complaint and that sounds horrible. 100%. I realize the sexual harassment is common. Any report of such needs to be taken very seriously. Some thoughts and questions below. Questions mostly about process and procedures, both in general, and how they were applied in this case. None of which should be confidential information. A few questions for Roger or anyone else that can answer: 1) Are the officers and civilian employees in the same union or different unions? 2) Roger, I know you can’t share confidential details, but can you tell us if there was an independent investigation? [And what are the city’s policies and procedures in such cases.] 3) Are the police (and any other city staff for that matter) required to report to the city manager (and, therefore, ultimately to the city council) when harassment and/or retaliation is reported? (so that it can be independently investigated?) The complaint states that the officer was suspended (the implication is due to this conduct). If that happened, it seems to me that an independent, outside investigation should have been initiated then and there. (Similarly once retaliation was alleged.) 4) What does the city pay annually for its insurance? This would provide us with a sense of scale. I presume this is in the budget documents somewhere? I noticed that there are quite a few timeline details in this complaint that could be collaborated by someone with access to city records (e.g. a council member). I’m not talking about personal details, but I’m talking about when investigations were initiated, when they were closed, when people were disciplined, suspended, brought back on (which should be part of the record), etc. If those are collaborated, it would indicate to me that internal procedures with the city, and the police department in particular, may be sorely lacking. I recognize that there may be additional relevant details not mentioned in the plaintiff’s complaint, which is why I’d like to know: 5) if someone independent of the city manager, the police, or the plaintiff has done that bit of due diligence. (This is separate from my question above if an independent investigation of the harassment and retaliation was conducted.) Just thinking through some numbers. We should all recognize that a settlement doesn’t necessarily mean culpability. (I know I’m probably not “allowed” to say that in liberal TkPk, but its true nonetheless…) $1M is not small change (but it also might not be considered large in this context either from the insurance point of view). The insurance company and city lawyers obviously thought that it was worth settling rather than going to court. Just doing the math, if they estimated that there was a 10% chance of a trail resulting in a $10M settlement, then paying out $1M makes financial sense, independent of the merits of the case. Sad thing is, we may never know the whole story due to legal constraints. But I hope that the council, who I hope does know sufficient details (although I suspect that its possible they can’t be told all the details) will take appropriate action. If there wasn’t an independent investigation, there certainly should have been. (And if there wasn’t, that seems very problematic in my view. But before running with that thought, I hope we can all get answers to the questions I posed above first.). To state the obvious, this situation undermines the public’s trust in our police department. I hope that the official response is not to “lawyer up” and not allow any information whatsoever out (which, unfortunately seems to be the default.). We need to understand if there is something seriously amiss here in TkPk. Or, get solid evidence to the contrary (Particularly, that an independent investigation was conducted, and what were the procedures and parameters of that. To me, that is central here.) Final thought, as far as getting rid of the TkPk police department, do we know that that county police department has a solid, positive record in this area? That would be

Hi all, we are looking to paint the exterior of our house. Anyone have good/ reasonable painters that you recommend? Thanks, Mariana 6810 Westmoreland