Editorial & Opinion: On Aging and Term Limits 
• January 10, 2024

It’s an election year – some would say the most important of our times. Attention has turned not only to the quality of our likely 2024 presidential nominees, but to […]

Editorial & Opinion: Time to Think of Creative Solutions to Prevent Homicide
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As the new year rolled in, readers of the Washington Post were greeted by this front-page story: “2023 Was District’s Deadliest Year in More Than Two Decades: The City Recorded […]

Restaurateur Tony Cibel — 1937 to 2024
• January 8, 2024

Restaurateur Tony Cibel — best known in Georgetown for Tony & Joe’s Seafood Place and Nick’s Riverside Grill at Washington Harbour — died Jan. 4 at the age of 86. […]

Crime: Baby Returned After Georgetown Car Theft; Armed Robbery at Sara’s Market; Local Reports
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In the first week of the new year, Georgetown and surrounding neighborhoods have not been spared the city’s recent waves of violent crime. On Thursday, Jan. 4, a daytime gun […]

Business: Coming in 2024
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Restaurants and retail shops set to open in Georgetown in 2024 are giving the town a happy new year — things are looking up.  Barnes & Noble  Gone from Georgetown […]

Downtowner News: Hotel Harrington, D.C. Evictions Triple
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The Hotel Harrington Bids Adieu   The Hotel Harrington said goodbye early last month after 109 years in business in Washington. While it never was the best hotel (the AC was […]

National Park Service Announces Plans for Georgetown’s C&O Canal Repairs
• January 4, 2024

At long last, the National Park Service (NPS) has formally announced plans to drain and restore Georgetown’s portion of the landmark C&O Canal with a $12.7 million “investment” to “preserve […]

Georgetown ‘Pot Shops’ Flourishing as City Licensing Delayed
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As many have noticed, cannabis “gifting shops” and dispensaries have been scrambling energetically – and often furtively – to set up shop behind Georgetown storefronts, to the delight of marijuana […]

Business Ins & Outs 2023
• January 2, 2024

In —  Sara’s Market Resurrected on Q Vivien Tsang and John Michael Kushner, co-owners of Dent Place Market, reopened Sara’s Market at 3008 Q St. NW which closed its doors last […]

Crime & Safety: City’s Homicide Rate Spikes; Glover Park’s Crime Surges; Local Reports
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For the New Year, could Washington’s new Police Chief Pamela A. Smith possibly not include reducing the city’s homicide levels as one of her chief resolutions for 2024? Front page […]