Crime: D.C. Shooting Deaths Mount While MPD Short-Staffed, GU Sex Assaults
• March 27, 2023

Carjackings, MPD Short-Staffing and Congressional Scrutiny As nationwide attention continues to focus on D.C.’s rising crime rates following the U.S. Senate’s recent overturning of the D.C. Council’s Revised Criminal Code […]

Mayor’s Reduced D.C. Budget Difficult to Label
• March 23, 2023

“Scant,” “Fair Shot,” “Comeback”?   District spokespeople, analysts and journalists are struggling with how to describe the new budget for Washington, D.C., that Mayor Muriel Bowser presented in her final $19.7 billion, […]

Mapping Georgetown: Authors, Cats Inhabit Oak Hill Cemetery’s Gate House
• March 20, 2023

There’s been a changing of the guard at our Oak Hill Cemetery! If you pass by the 22-acre marvel at 3001 R Street NW often or occasionally, and think you’re […]

Crime: New Second District Commander; Data Analysis, Local Crime
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New Commander in Town There’s a new police commander in town. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) announced March 13 that Commander John Branch of MPD’s Seventh District – a nearly […]

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
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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
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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, […]