commercial strip including deli and other small, local businesses, on Minnesota Avenue, NE, in DC (2010, before redevelopment)

News, Views, and Pews

Virginia Spatz has reported — regularly in some years, less often in others — in Capital Community Newspapers, including the Hill Rag, Mid-City (DC North), and East of the River for 25 years. She regularly reported the monthly news for East of the River for five years. Her work has also appeared — regularly in some years, less often in others — in the Hill Rag and Mid-City (or DC North). Visit Capital Community News.

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Intersection of Minnesota & Benning, before DOES and Donatelli (Park 7) development. (photo 2010)

Virginia Spatz kept Ward 7 Connections blog as a related resource for East of the River news. (At the time there were several active Ward 8 blogs.) The blog remains with what is now historical material, including for a few unrecognizable views of, e.g., pre-Donatelli Minnesota and Benning.

See also “Jew in the Pew” a monthly series on worship communities East of DC’s Anacostia River and “Spiritual Life on Capitol Hill,” which appears in the 2016 Fagon Guide.

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