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Our Top Stories of 2025
Halloween Ghost Cruise on Canal Boat: Spirited Fun Before 2 Years of Drydock
• November 2, 2023
Halloween phantoms often mysteriously appear – then disappear – then return to spook again. In Georgetown’s stretch of the C&O Canal, the water upon which Georgetown’s new canal boat floats […]
Georgetown Puts on a Spooky Halloween Show
• October 30, 2023
As Halloween draws nye, Georgetown does up the neighborhood in spooky splendor. We hope you enjoy this collection of creepy, scary, and eerie snapshots from the neighborhood. Photos by Robert […]
Coach Tasha Butts (1982-2023)
• October 26, 2023
Georgetown University is mourning the loss of their women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts after a two-year battle with breast cancer. Butts was just 41 years old. The university hired former […]
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 […]
Mapping Georgetown: A Walking Mindfulness Guide
• October 2, 2023
Is there stillness in your life? Contemplation? Are the roses smelling sweet? Is there ever enough mindfulness? In case you haven’t noticed, Kripalu Certified Outdoor Mindfulness Guide, Susan West […]
Mapping Georgetown: Neighborhood Services Lifting Up the Unhoused
• September 18, 2023
“SEEKING LASTING SOLUTIONS to homelessness ONE PERSON AT A TIME.” ~ Georgetown Ministry Center. This is our third and last story in a series on the plight of the homeless […]
Crime: Pinto Launches ‘Secure DC Plan’; Georgetown Incidents Reported to ANC
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D.C. Council Member Brooke Pinto (Ward 2) Launches ‘Secure DC’ Plan Fear of crime has been a major factor in Georgetown politics this summer. “I am getting a lot of […]
Georgetown Coalition for Public Spaces Petitions to Improve Streateries
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Where do you stand on Georgetown streateries? A petition calling for “common-sense re-adjustments” to Georgetown’s streateries programs, launched by the Georgetown Coalition for Public Spaces (GCPS) and signed by former […]
Students, Faculty Petition to End GU Legacy Admissions
• September 11, 2023
Choosing a freshman class at one of Washington, D.C.’s elite colleges just got a whole lot harder this summer. In June, as expected, the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional […]
Crime: D.C. Summer Crime Spree Continues; Youth Curfew; Local Reports
• September 2, 2023
Guns, Yes, But Any Weapons Will Do … Mayor Muriel Bowser and Acting Police Chief Pamela A. Smith cite illegal gun-trafficking in the District as a major factor in the […]
