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Where to Spend Last-Minute Halloween Fun
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Georgetown Garden Club Celebrates 100th Birthday With A Flash Flower Giveaway
Living
GMS Vignettes: How Historic Businesses Stick Around in Georgetown
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A Georgetowner Leap Day Birthday: He’s 21!
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91st Georgetown House Tour, April 20
Will Georgetown Keep Cool With Coolidge?
October 5, 2017
•Representatives of the Vermont-based Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation presented plans at an Oct. 2 Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting to locate an outpost at the historic mansion at 3425 Prospect St. NW.
Animals Blessed, Given Medals at St. John’s
October 2, 2017
•After a brief service on Oct. 1, at which St. Francis medals were bestowed on the newly blessed canine faithful, treats were distributed both to four-footers and two-footers.
Dave Chappelle Gives Emmy to Ellington School, Gets Key to Washington, D.C.
September 29, 2017
•Dave Chappelle returned to his alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts on 35th Street, remarking on its reconstruction and giving the cheering students advice Sept. 29. Chappelle […]
GBA Touts Main Street, Real Estate, Water Taxis
September 21, 2017
•Approval of a Georgetown Main Street, a small-business marketing program for Wisconsin Avenue, should be coming next week, according to GBA President Sonya Bernhardt.
Georgetown Gathers on Healy Lawn
September 18, 2017
•The Sept. 16 activities included music, free burgers and hot dogs, a moon bounce, photos with the G.U. mascot Jack the Bulldog, face painting and fingerprinting by the Metropolitan Police Department (in a good way).
Will Compactors Stymie Rat Banqueting?
September 11, 2017
•The District extended the deadline for compactor grant applications until 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 15. Grants of up to $13,500 are available.
Tree Lovers and Killers in Georgetown
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Sept. 10 was the annual gathering of Trees for Georgetown, a committee of the Citizens Association of Georgetown. The group’s mission is to plant and maintain the trees that line the neighborhood’s residential streets.
ANC: Heating Plant, K St. Bike Lanes, Community Updates
August 30, 2017
•The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) will hold its September meeting, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
2 Dead From Jumping in Potomac River Near Key Bridge
August 28, 2017
•Two adult males went into the river from the Aqueduct Bridge ruins on Sunday evening. One did not make it out alive; the other died at the hospital.
2 Men — and Dog — Confront DDOT Contractor in Georgetown
August 24, 2017
•A large portion of sidewalk on 30th and Dumbarton Streets, traditionally Georgetown brick, was nearly covered with a cement-based surface.