Neighborhood News
Georgetown Garden Club Begins Centennial at Evermay with Edwina von Gal
News & Politics
Business Ins & Outs: Reverie, Molteni&C, Ice Cream Jubilee
News & Politics
Crime Report: Suicide, Arrests for Break-ins, Illegal Handguns
News & Politics
ANC Zeroes In on Public Safety
News & Politics
Prompting Community Involvement, Secure DC Bill Passes
Crime: MPD Chief Cites 2022 Crime-Fighting Gains While Denouncing Gun Violence
January 3, 2023
•On the first day of 2023, MPD Chief Robert Contee released a “Message from the Chief” lauding his department’s crime-fighting efforts last year while acknowledging the District continues to be […]
2022 – 2023: What’s Out and What’s In
December 29, 2022
•As we look toward the new year with high hopes and a modicum of trepidation, it is perhaps altogether fitting and proper to look back on this past year and […]
Have You Visited the Peabody Room?
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As the oldest neighborhood in the nation’s capital, with early 17th-century colonial origins, Georgetown has a deep, complex and ever-emerging history. So, wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a Museum […]
Top 8 Town Topics of 2022: Canal Boat, Ukraine, Jelleff, Crime
December 27, 2022
•It was the year of “Getting Back to Normal” in Georgetown after almost two years of lock-down, masks on, vaccine checks and restricted events. In this environment, big things happened, […]
Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative Hires Adnan Syed
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On December 12, when Georgetown University’s new Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) hired the key murder suspect featured in the most widely streamed true-crime podcast in history, the university’s Jesuit […]
Crime: Beware of Porch Piracy This Holiday Season
December 19, 2022
•With less than a week before Christmas and over 50 percent of Americans shopping for gifts online this year (according to Statista.com), the problem of “porch piracy” – or package […]
Inaugural Georgetown Christmas Caroling Big Hit
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The First Annual Georgetown Community Christmas Caroling on Dec. 11 proved an instant hit. “We had 50 carolers, and we stopped at six homes,” organizer and advisory neighborhood commissioner Elizabeth Miller […]
D.C. Metro Bus Rides to Be Free by July 1
December 12, 2022
•This month, the D.C. Council did something that no other governing body a city Washington, D.C.’s size or larger has ever done: it unanimously agreed to offer and fund free […]
Crime: Metro Shootings, Suspicious Vehicle on M Street
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With more holiday shoppers riding Washington, D.C.’s Metrorail system in recent days, a spate of Metro shootings this past week has alarmed riders, residents, visitors, police and the broader public. […]
Santas Come to Georgetown
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Over the weekend, Georgetown started its 12 days of Christmas early as Santa Claus showed up at Volta Park, Rose Park, the George Town Club and who knows where else. […]