Rt. 50 Shoulder Restoration and Beautification Project Taking Shape!! Thanks to the efforts of our hardy volunteers, we planted some 29 native species saplings last Saturday on the Rt. 50 shoulder. The cedar, sumac, holly, and redbuds should do well in the shoulder and overshadow the stakes in a few years. A main problem in […]
All, Sorry for the last minute notice, but after many weeks of waiting for approval, BMCA received the VDOT permit to plant trees for our Rt. 50 Shoulder beautification project yesterday. We will have a tree planting event THIS SATURDAY starting at 10 AM, gathering at in the grassy section of the shoulder at the […]
Well it wasn’t that scary after all for Halloween — except for all the trash the combined team of BMCAers, ARMNers and skateboarders [for Arlington Skatepark] pulled out of Powhatan Springs Park!! It was a beautiful day and we had a great turnout of folks from the three organizations. They planted new native plant species […]
The Boulevard Manor Civic Association will hold its Fall General Meeting at the Church of the Brethren, 300 N Montague Street, on Monday, October 19, 2015 beginning promptly at 7:00 pm. The agenda will include: Powhatan Springs Skate Park renovations – Patti Hurst, Skaters for Arlington Skatepark Reeves farmhouse restoration and preservation – Sandra Spear, Reeves Farm Conservation Society Arlington […]
We have been working on getting the Rt. 50 shoulder beautification and restoration project organized for many months and finally may get it off the ground. We hope to organize a planting party in November or early December assuming the weather is accommodating. A few people have asked for an overview, so I put together […]
All, Powhatan Springs is having a major makeover. Summer work by the County has drastically reduced the invasive ground cover – it looks almost scary back in the woods (see pictures below). So we thought for Halloween it would be good to get out and take advantage of the County’s work. The removal of the […]
APS has not started construction for the Ashlawn school access at Montague Street by the end of September after all. We don’t know the reasons for the delay and why construction did not begin in September as APS had told us at the community meeting on September 8. APS recently updated us that they would […]
We will be discussing potential Neighborhood Conservation (NC) projects to enhance our neighborhood at the BMCA’s Fall General Meeting on Monday, Oct. 19 at 7:00 pm in the membership hall of the Church of the Brethren at 300 North Montague Street. We will select two or three projects to improve our neighborhood and submit them for […]
Arlington Public Schools (APS) held a community meeting on September 8 to explain their recent design changes and next steps for constructing the new access to the backside of the school from Montague Street. APS said they plan to start construction this month and it would take a little over two months to finish the […]
We are clearing several areas around the neighborhood of their invasive species — particularly the English ivy and Euonymus that have grown up the trees — in conjunction with the BMCA Parks Committee and with the help of the Master Naturalists of Northern Virginia and the Arlington County staff. So far, we concentrated on Powhatan […]