Northwood News

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• DECEMBER 2005
• Opposing Plans Now That Soccer Field is Approved  •  President’s Message  •  A Note to Forest Knolls folks  •  Conflicts in Our Meeting Schedule  •  A Plant Riddle in Our Neighborhood  •  Oldest Resident  •  Who are the People in the Neighborhood?  Portrait of NFCCA Board Member Charlie Pritchard   [12 pp.]
• OCTOBER 2005
• Park and Planning Dismisses Community Opposition to Field  •  President’s Message  •  New Board to be Elected at Meeting  •  Do You Have a Story to Tell?  •  ‘Better Living through Chemistry?’  The Toxic Effects of the Common Fabric Softener  •  Life in Our Community:  Confessions of a Pool Rat  •  Hannes Street Traffic Update  •  Our Oldest Resident Sought  •  ‘Neighborhood Night Out’ Fun  •  Einstein High School Hosts College Fair  •  A Profile of Two Former Residents:  Who are the People in the Neighborhood?  •  Parents, Join the NFCCA Listserv  •  Second Listserv Watches Crime   [16 pp.]
• JUNE 2005
• County Council Votes to Return Trash Cans to Parks  •  President’s Message  •  Update on the Parents’ Listserv  •  Join Our Crime Watch Listserv  •  Help Wanted for Our Community  •  National Night Out is August 2  •  Problems with Pet Waste:  The Scoop on the Poop  •  County Waste Collection:  What and How to Recycle  •  Changes Proposed for the Rachel Carson Trail  •  How Does Your Street Rank?  •  ‘Traffic Calming’ or ‘Traffic Control’ for Hannes Street?  •  Clueless in Frogland   [12 pp.]
• APRIL 2005
• New ‘Listserv’ Created for Northwood Park Parents  •  NFCCA Crime Watch E-Mail List Started  •  President’s Message  •  NFCCA Membership:  How Does Your Own Street Rank?  •  We Want to Know Your Story  •  Sidewalks to Be Built on Both Sides of Colesville Road (Route 29)  •  Four Corners Gets New ‘Fajita Coast’ Restaurant  •  Creek and River Cleanup April 16  •  Northwood-Four Corners Baby Network Continues  •  Neighborhood Zoning Issues  •  Burnt Mills Shopping Center Update  •  Our Park Issues Reviewed  •  New to the Neighborhood?  •  Widening the Beltway (I-495)   [12 pp.]
• FEBRUARY 2005
• Coalition to Return Trash Cans to County Parks  •  President’s Message  •  Snowstorm Information  •  Local Legislative Issues of Note  •  Kugler’s is Out, But What’s In?  •  Familiarization Hike on the Rachel Carson Trail  •  Treasurer’s Report  •  Fancy $26K Art Deco Signs Announce Four Corners  •  How Does Your Street Rank?  •  Hannes Street Residents Seek Speed Controls  •  Burnt Mills Shopping Center to Open in Mid-April  •  A Brazen Theft   [12 pp.]


• DECEMBER 2004
• No Response on Northwood Park  •  Burnt Mills Shopping Center Update  •  President’s Message  •  October’s Biannual Creek Cleanup Yields ‘Upscale’ Trash  •  Trash Cans Might Return  •  Rachel Carson Greenway Trail Extension to be Considered, Legacy Open Space Program Revived  •  Neighbors of Northwest Branch Carry Out Reforestation Project  •  Membership:  How Does Your Street Rank (So Far)?  •  Join the NFCCA Baby Network   [8 pp.]
• OCTOBER 2004
• Teen Robbed at Gunpoint in Park  •  Residents Speak Out for North Four Corners Park  •  President’s Message  •  Stream Spruce-Up  •  New Board Elections to be Held at October 13th NFCCA Meeting  •  Trader Joe’s Delayed, No Ice Cream Parlor  •  Snakes Alive!  •  About Neighborhood Night Out   [8 pp.]
• JUNE 2004
• Changes Proposed for Woodmoor  •  President’s Message  •  Passions Run High at ICC Forum  •  Run for the Board  •  North Four Corners Park Update  •  Earth Day Activities:  Creek Cleanup, Tree Planting  •  Parking Across Sidewalks  •  Police Seek Information  •  Our Neighborhood Featured in Gazette Article  •  120 Attend 50th Anniversary of Northwood Park Cooperative  •  Baby Network  •  Ritz, Starbucks Coming to BMSC  •  Membership Reaches 10 Percent  •  Help Needed for Neighborhood Night Out 2004   [12 pp.]
• APRIL 2004
• InterCounty Connector Forum to be Held May 12  •  President’s Message  •  ‘Bring Back the Cans’ Rally  •  Crime Prevention Officer at Next NFCCA Meeting  •  Trader Joe’s is In  •  Creek Care  •  Rachel Carson Greenway Celebration  •  North Four Corners Park Update  •  Northwood High School Funding  •  Membership:  How Does Your Street Rank?   [12 pp.]
• FEBRUARY 2004
• Update on the North Four Corners Park  •  President’s Message  •  Introducing Our New Event Coordinator  •  Rating Pepco  •  New Four Corners Eatery  •  Giving the Gift of Trees  •  My Scary House and Superhero Neighbor  •  Local History:  Belton Road’s Cherry Blossoms  •  Update on Burnt Mills Shopping Center, Trader Joe’s  •  Neighborhood Anniversary Update   [12 pp.]


• DECEMBER 2003
• Burnt Mills in ‘Final Negotiations’ with Trader Joe’s  •  President’s Message  •  North Four Corners Park Update  •  Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services  •  Neighbors of the Northwest Branch  •  ‘Green Construction’ at Northwood High School  •  Dues Update:  50 Households Have Joined So Far   [8 pp.]
• OCTOBER 2003
• Strange Developments for North Four Corners Park Expansion  •  President’s Message  •  New Sidewalks, At Long Last!  •  Northwood High School to Reopen, Focus on 4 ‘Academies’  •  Distributors Will Be Needed  •  Social Events Coordinator Sought  •  Just the Dues Facts, Ma’am  •  Blair Fruit Sale  •  Baby Network Continues to Grow, Thrive  •  What the County Law Says About Renting Rooms in Your Own Home  •  Thanks to National Night Out Volunteers  •  Have a Story?   [12 pp.]
• JUNE 2003
• Sidewalk Installation Imminent  •  President’s Message  •  Know About Our Area?  •  Homes Sweet Homes Revisited  •  A Rose is a Rose is a Weed?  •  NFCCA Board Expresses Its Concerns About Planning Meeting for North Four Corners Park  •  Creek Cleanup  •  Membership Update   [12 pp.]
• APRIL 2003
• Crime Comes to Our Community  •  President’s Message  •  NFCCA Emails Help Keep You Informed  •  BayScaping Tips for Spring  •  To Dog Owners  •  Membership:  How Does Your Street Rank?  •  Fighting West Nile Virus by Battling Mosquitoes  •  Survey Responses for Proposed Burnt Mills Shopping Center  •  What Will Happen to North Four Corners Park?  •  Annual Creek Clean-Up Scheduled   [12 pp.]
• FEBRUARY 2003
• Redistricting May Send Local Students to Unrenovated Northwood High School  •  Just When Will Those Leaves Be Collected?  •  President’s Message  •  Shoveling Law  •  Are You a Member Yet?  •  How Do You Think North Four Corners Park Should Be Used?  •  Take Some ZZs  •  Baby Network Needs Babysitters  •  Making a House an Apartment  •  New Retail Center on Route 29  •  Social Director Sought for NFCCA   [8 pp.]


• DECEMBER 2002
• A Public Hearing to be Held on North Four Corners Park  •  News on the Member Drive  •  President’s Message  •  Seeing the Light, or Living in the Darkness Can be Better!  •  Computer Classes Now Available at Senior Center   [8 pp.]
• OCTOBER 2002
• West Nile Virus Confirmed in County  •  Big Neighborhood Night Out for Northwood-Four Corners Community  •  President’s Message  •  Seahawks Undefeated in 2002  •  Transit Center in Four Corners?  •  NFCCA Sets Membership Goal  •  Annual NFCCA Board Elections  •  Making a Safe Neighborhood   [10 pp.]
• JUNE 2002
• Hearing is Postponed for KFC Drive-Through  •  President’s Message  •  Do You Know of a Good Printer?  •  Did You Know That...  •  Baby Network Alive, Kicking ... and Squalling!  •  County Funds Local Sidewalks, Legacy Open Space for Parks  •  Your Help Needed for Our Neighborhood Night Out Event  •  Placing an Ad   [8 pp.]
• APRIL 2002
• KFC Seeks Exception to Its ‘Adverse Effects’  •  President’s Message  •  Creek Cleanup  •  The Purpose of C-4 Zoning at Woodmoor Center  •  Join in Planting Native Trees, Shrubs Along Lockridge Drive  •  The Proposed KFC Restaurant and the Vision Behind the Four Corners Master Plan  •  Ads on Utility Poles Illegal  •  What You Can Do If You Oppose the Proposed KFC Drive-Through  •  Streetscaping  •  Baby Network Now 18 Strong   [12 pp.]
• FEBRUARY 2002
• Finger-Lickin’ Good?  You Decide!  •  Traffic Calming Committee is Dead on Arrival  •  President’s Message  •  Update on Area Burglaries  •  Route 29 Sidewalks Update  •  Right-Turn Signs Installed   [6 pp.]


• DECEMBER 2001
• ‘Invasives’ Removed During Fall Creek Cleanup  •  President’s Message  •  Who’s Caring for the Corner Where Our Community Sign Is?  •  Yeshiva Property to Be Incorporated into the NFC Park  •  Neighborhood Seeks Committee to Discuss Traffic Calming  •  MoCo Public Safety Helicopters  •  Lockridge Project Part of Anacostia Restoration   [10 pp.]
• OCTOBER 2001
• A Sidewalk Near You  •  President’s Message  •  Thoughts on Our Northwood Community in Time of War  •  Could the Rescue Squad Find Your House in an Emergency?  •  Stream Restoration on the Northwest Branch  •  Additional Traffic Calming Measures Considered  •  Traffic Petitions Submitted  •  Annual Creek Cleanup Time  •  Join the N-FC Baby Network  •  Local Annual Solar Homes Tour Held This Month  •  Playground Equipment Update  •  Permitting Changes for Home-Based Businesses May Be Ahead  •  An Angry Individual  •  Have You Received This in Time?  •  NFCCA Community Telephone Directory  •  Next Elections for NFCCA   [16 pp.]

Below are a few older issues we’ve managed to locate.

• OCTOBER 1998
• President’s Message  •  Going the Extra Mile: Extending the RideOn Bus 19 Route  •  Annual Meeting  •  Garden Planned for Intersection  •  Future Meeting Dates  •  Speed Humps  •  Decision on Residential Parking Permit System Needed  •  Traffic Restrictions Process  •  NFCCA Dues   [5 pp.]
• FEBRUARY 1997
• President’s Message  •  Is There a Trolley or Monorail in Our Future?  •  Circumferential Light Rail Transit (LRT)  •  Arguments for Beltway LRT  •  Arguments Against the Beltway LRT  •  Neighborhood Crime Watch  •  List of Public Officials  •  Traffic Report  •  We Need Your Help!  •  WSSC Sewer Rehabilitation/Bridges Update  •  Four Corners Master Plan Approved by County Council  •  County Council FY98 Capital Improvements Program Budget Hearing   [9 pp.]
• JUNE 1996
• President’s Message  •  Revised Association Bylaws Adopted  •  Route 29 Transitway Recommendations Made  •  Neighborhood Crime Watch  •  Traffic Report: Four Corners/Route 29 Construction; Right Turn Restrictions on Colesville Road; Traffic Management Bill Status  •  Speed Humps  •  Four Corners Master Plan Approval Process  •  Roy Rogers Drive-Through Zoning Appeal to be Heard  •  Ecology: Return of the Moth  •  Stream Themes  •  Anacostia Cleanup to Continue  •  Plant Clinic at Wheaton Regional Library  •  List of Public Officials  •  Four Corners Consumer Survey  •  Northwest Trail Paving Dropped  •  Montgomery County Department of Parks Volunteer Trails Program   [13 pp.]
• APRIL 1996
• President’s Message  •  Association Bylaws to be Revised  •  Route 29 Transitway Recommendations Made  •  Traffic Report: Route 29/Four Corners Construction; Cut-Through Traffic Bill  •  Land Use Issues: Yeshiva School Site; Woodmoor Shopping Center  •  Four Corners Commercial Revitalization Project  •  Ecology: How Can You Tell if the ‘Winter of the Century’ Has Finally Given Way to Spring?  •  Join Us for an Earth Day Creek Cleanup  •  Timely Tips for the Year of the Rat  •  Testimony in Four Corners Master Plan on Northwest Branch Multiuse Trail   [11 pp.]