Funding Announced for Ellington Field, Rebuilt Jelleff Center
• October 15, 2019

Mayor Muriel Bowser has budgeted $25 million to tear down and rebuild the 50-year-old Jelleff Recreation Center, Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans told attendees at an Oct. 7 community meeting.

Trick or Treat for Rose Park Friends
• September 26, 2019

Every October, Nancy Taylor Bubes pulls out “every tacky Halloween decoration” for her annual fundraising event for Friends of Rose Park.

Spotted in Georgetown: Big, Bad … Mountain Lion?
• September 16, 2019

The cat was said to be too big for a domestic feline and its hair was too short. The Smithsonian National Zoo was contacted and said all of its animals were safe.

Jack Evans Report: Hyde-Addison Returns to Georgetown
• September 13, 2019

In this column, Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans shares his vision for parents and their children to have access to neighborhood schools and a smooth transition between elementary, middle and high school.

Ribbon Cut at Restored C&O Locks
• September 12, 2019

There were several dozen attendees at a Sept. 12 ribbon cutting for two newly restored locks, numbers 3 and 4, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal in Georgetown.

Official Silence Surrounds Rape in Georgetown Apartment
• September 3, 2019

At press time, no MPD officer or spokesperson had responded to The Georgetowner’s request for updates about the investigation, even to confirm whether or not an investigation was ongoing.

ANC Tuesday: Jelleff and Ellington Fields, DDOT, Pepco
• September 1, 2019

Tonight’s agenda includes discussion of the intent to transfer to DPW the Duke Ellington School of the Arts playing field and the renewal of Maret School’s contract to use the field at the Jelleff Recreation Center.

Back to New Schools: ‘Every Day Counts’
• August 26, 2019

Mayor Bowser, Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee and Principal Calvin Hooks presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Hyde-Addison Elementary School on Aug. 21. 

New Executive Director at Georgetown Heritage
• August 21, 2019

For the past seven years, Jeffrey L. Nichols was president and CEO of Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, outside of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Hyde-Addison Transformed: Georgetown’s Public Elementary School Is Student-Ready 
• August 19, 2019

Principal Calvin Hooks smiled broadly late Friday afternoon, Aug. 9, as some 40 parents and children ooh-ed and aah–ed and commented: “Amazing!” Hooks was showing them around Georgetown’s about-to-be-reopened, totally […]