Georgetown Garden Shop Opens With a Vision    
• November 13, 2023

“It began with a vision,” Caroline Ervin, the owner of the new garden shop on 3214 O St. NW told the Georgetowner. “A real vision actually, not a virtual one. My […]

‘It Won’t Work’ Says Jelleff’s Stowers About New Plan
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“It won’t work!” announced Bob Stowers, the longtime coach-director of the Jelleff Recreation Center to a panel of D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation officials on Wednesday evening, Nov. 8, […]

Georgetown Christ Church Pilgrimage Ensnared in War Outbreak
• November 6, 2023

Imagine!  You finally made it — a devout Christian, you’re on your life-time bucket-list dream trip to the Holy Land — part of a group of 11 fellow parishioners from Christ […]

ANC Tackles Parks, Public Spaces, Crime, Leaf Collection 
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She tried. She really did. Gwen Lohse, chair of ANC 2E, had timed each item of her lengthy November ANC meeting – held Oct. 29, all remote – to a reasonable time […]

Georgetown Village Gets Inside Scoop From ‘60 Minutes’
• October 30, 2023

“We don’t usually do breaking news on ‘60 Minutes,’ rather long form stories that can take weeks or even months or more to prepare,” CBS News “60 Minutes” Executive Producer […]

Mayor’s Crime Bill, ACT Now, Seeks to Curb Violence, Retail Theft, Drug-dealing
• October 23, 2023

The unrelenting increase in crime in Washington, D.C. — particularly homicides, gun violence, carjacking and mass retail robberies —  has all the usually contentious District Council and Office of the Mayor clearly […]

Silver City: The Love of a Grandpa Facing Death to Save His Kids
• October 16, 2023

It’s a bit of an inside joke in Washington, D.C., when a controversial legislator or top government official suddenly resigns with the platitude, “I want to spend more time with […]

Q&A Cafe: Kitty Kelley, Neighbor and Author of ‘Unauthorized’ Books 
• October 12, 2023

“I do not relish living in a world where information is authorized, sanitized and homogenized. I read banned books. I applaud whistleblowers, and I reject any suppression by church or […]

ANC Meeting Got Lively Late in the Evening  
• October 10, 2023

Two unusual occurrences considerably livened up an expectedly normal-business monthly meeting of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) on Oct. 2. They happened after 9 p.m. at that.    First, the […]

A Looming Government Shutdown [AI]
• October 5, 2023

A government shutdown is looking increasingly likely by 12:01 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 1, if Congress doesn’t agree on an operating budget for the entire federal government by that time. The […]