Margaret Brennan of ‘Face the Nation’ Discusses Ukraine at Q&A Café 
• February 24, 2022

Margaret Brennan, moderator of “Face the Nation,” at CBS News, drew a capacity crowd to Carol Joynt’s Q&A Café Feb 22 at the George Town Club.   A producer at “Face […]

Knowing and Celebrating Georgetown’s Black History  
• February 9, 2022

Thirty years ago, The Georgetowner hosted a reception for a book that helped the town rediscover part of its past. “Black Georgetown Remembered” is now a classic of Black history […]

Carl Bernstein: From D.C. Juvie to Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist
• January 27, 2022

Carl Bernstein — The Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who with Bob Woodward exposed the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon in 1973 — grew up in Tenleytown and Silver Spring. When […]

January 6, One Year On: The World Is Watching 
• January 6, 2022

On this day, one year past, the sovereign people of the world’s oldest constitutional republic pause to reflect on the horrific events of January 6, 2021, the single most traumatic […]

Hark! What Craziness Crosses Our Transom? 
• December 27, 2021

A rich assortment of unsolicited potential content comes across a newspaper’s transom each day — much of it well-intentioned, but silly.   Of course, the news business couldn’t survive a day […]

“In a World Full of Grinches, Be a Griswold”
• December 13, 2021

“In a world full of grinches, be a Griswold.”    That’s a recently discovered T-Shirt quote that really resonates as this year draws to a close. Reflecting on The Grinch on Mount Crumpet, […]

2021 Georgetowners of the Year   
• December 8, 2021

The naming of Georgetowners of the Year has been a tradition of The Georgetowner newspaper for decades. This year’s group, selected by the editorial board, includes a church, a congregation and pastor, a […]

All About Eve: The Message of Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Org.
• December 6, 2021

  The story of Genesis is eons old and you would think by this time that the statute of limitations had run out on Eve’s theft of the apple and […]

Silver City: With Grands and Kids, Celebrating Thanksgiving Can Be Tricky
• November 24, 2021

Starting Wednesday, Nov. 24, and for the next five days or so, most everyone in the United States is about to navigate the most unique American holiday of all: Thanksgiving. […]

Decisions on Decking the Streets    
• November 10, 2021

While we are planning to deck the halls during the Yuletide, it’s time to take away some decks set up for sidewalk expansion to help businesses during the pandemic.   The […]