Jamahri Sydnor had just graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School where she was captain of the cheerleading squad, sang in the choir, and was a peer counselor.

The closure impacts about 20 full-time salaried staffers and 40 freelancers, who don’t know yet if they will transition to other cities or lose their jobs, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Lakira Johnson’s twins died shortly after birth.

On this day in 1802 the City of Washington was incorporated by Congress, the first step in the then-ongoing creation of a new capital for the nation.

A neighborhood’s name is part of its identity. Adoption of it, or aversion to it, can say a lot about where a place is going — and where it came from. Today, we’ll look at the genesis of “Brentwood.”

We’ve told you before about the District Department of Motor Vehicles’s plan to shutter its Brentwood Service Center this month, and now the DMV is reminding customers that the closing is all set for this Friday. The agency sent out the email below last night to residents signed up for DMV eAlerts: Dear Resident, Effective Friday, August 14, 2009 at 6:00 pm the Brentwood Service Center located at 1233 Brentwood Road, NE will permanently…

A “lack of interior space” seems like a fairly redundant complaint about a DMV outpost, but in any case: the Brentwood Service Center outpost of the District Department of Motor Vehicles will close permanently on August 14. The move leaves Northeast residents in a bind, as that quadrant of the city will soon be the only one without a DMV service center.