
Grace Newton
Associate Producer at WTOP News (Maryland)
associate producer and reporter @WTOP previously: @NPR newscast | @au_soc alum
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Grace Newton
Share Thousands turned out on Sunday to partake in D.C.’s parade commemorating Emancipation Day, the day in 1862 that 3,000 enslaved people in the District were given their freedom. D.C.’s annual Emancipation Day parade was held along Pennsylvania Avenue and included a range of participants, from dance troops to a Double Dutch club. WTOP spoke to locals who made their way to the parade route.
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1 week ago |
wtop.com | Grace Newton
Thousands turned out on Sunday to partake in D.C.’s parade commemorating Emancipation Day, the day in 1862 that 3,000 enslaved people in the District were given their freedom. D.C.’s annual Emancipation Day parade was held along Pennsylvania Avenue and included a range of participants, from dance troops to a Double Dutch club. WTOP spoke to locals who made their way to the parade route.
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1 week ago |
wtop.com | Grace Newton
A new report from apartment search website RentCafe ranks Washington, D.C. No. 8 nationally on the list of smallest new rentals. According to the report, new apartments in D.C. average 745 square feet, a 54-square-foot drop over the last decade, a change that reflects a growing trend toward tighter and more compact living in urban hubs. That puts the average new apartment in the District at just 41 more square feet than an average three-car garage. But, D.C. didn’t make the list alone.
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2 weeks ago |
wtop.com | Grace Newton
Members of Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors became visibly agitated in a meeting with Virginia’s Department of Transportation over the agency’s response to a snowstorm in January. The board says roads throughout Northern Virginia were not treated or plowed properly, making transportation nearly impossible for some residents during an early January snowstorm.
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2 weeks ago |
wtop.com | Grace Newton
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is responding to reports that the White House is planning a large-scale military parade through the District on June 14 to celebrate President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. “I don’t know if it’s been characterized as a military parade, but maybe it has. I haven’t been directly involved in it yet,” Bowser said in a press briefing Friday.
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