• The Woodrow Wilson Bridge will be shut down to auto traffic tonight from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. when the drawbridge opens for a ship to pass.
  • A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was changing genders won a discrimination lawsuit. [AP via NYTimes]
  • Got an extra vacuum cleaner you don’t need? A needy resident living in a building under renovation could use it. [Bread for the City]
  • Details available on the constructions plans for improvements to Columbia Heights’s sidewalks, curbs and crosswalks. Work is scheduled to begin before mid-November and be completed within 18 months. [Examiner]
  • The National Music Center and Museum Foundation located inside the Carnegie Library building at Mount Vernon Square has folded hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. [Washington Business Journal]
  • There was another bomb scare at DCUSA over the weekend. [Prince of Petworth]

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