3 Dead in Rock Creek Parkway Crash

March 15, 2023

This news report was updated, noon, Thursday, March 16. Three persons died at the scene after an overnight crash on Rock Creek Parkway — and two others are hospitalized. The […]

Please Donate: Mt. Zion Church Sacred Places $100,000 Grant Match Campaign Ends March 31

March 14, 2023

We would like to share a message from Rev. Selena Johnson and the Sacred Places Team of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church at 1334 29th St. NW in Georgetown. “God has blessed Mt. […]

Business Ins & Outs: Dig, Shouk, Villa Yara; Hitched, Streets Market, Apple

March 13, 2023

Soon: Dig, Shouk, Villa Yara  Three new Georgetown restaurants are moving right along in construction and opening within days or weeks. Villa Yara (Lebanese) at 2815 M St. NW is […]

Mapping Georgetown: Getting to Know Our Neighbors on This Year’s House Tour


As you wander through Georgetown, have you ever wondered who are all these beautiful, vibrant, interesting people who live here? Today we meet a couple — one’s an artist and […]

Community Calendar, March 9 – April 12 

March 8, 2023

March 8-22, Noon-6 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Renowned Photographer Nancy Lensen-Tomasson to Exhibit Photos at Balfour Palisades Leasing Center, 4418 MacArthur Blvd. NW  March 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Tudor Nights: The Feminine Touch, […]

Georgetown Budget Proposals Might Not Fly


A month or two can make a big difference in transitional times like these, and impact even supposedly long-negotiated, thought-out, professionally analyzed budget maneuverings — even in a monolithic one-party, […]

Volta Park Baseball Diamond Gets Official Reconstruction Overview

March 6, 2023

Volta Park neighbors, park users and youth baseball fans got an official nod on March 1 from D.C.’s Department of Parks and Recreation to their long-pursued dreams and initiatives to […]

Mapping Georgetown: Spy a Spy’s Home on the Georgetown House Tour


One of the great features of the arrival of spring in Georgetown is the Georgetown House Tour, to be held this year on April 22. So many intriguing details about […]

ANC 2E Report: Crime, Traffic, Trolley Trestle 


Issues ranging from crime to restoring an historic trestle bridge caught the attention and some official resolutions of the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) on Feb. 27 in a […]

Happy 100th Birthday, Burleith!  


Described as “a village in the city,” Burleith is located in Ward 2 of Northwest Washington, D.C., and is a quiet, almost purely residential community of about 535 households nestled […]