Georgetown Goes All Out for Halloween
• November 2, 2023

You’ve been seeing the Halloween decorations for weeks, but it was the trick-or-treating in the neighborhood that brought it all home. The houses around 31st and Q — especially the […]

Halloween Ghost Cruise on Canal Boat: Spirited Fun Before 2 Years of Drydock
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Halloween phantoms often mysteriously appear – then disappear – then return to spook again. In Georgetown’s stretch of the C&O Canal, the water upon which Georgetown’s new canal boat floats […]

Georgetown Village Gets Inside Scoop From ‘60 Minutes’
• October 30, 2023

“We don’t usually do breaking news on ‘60 Minutes,’ rather long form stories that can take weeks or even months or more to prepare,” CBS News “60 Minutes” Executive Producer […]

Georgetown Puts on a Spooky Halloween Show
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As Halloween draws nye, Georgetown does up the neighborhood in spooky splendor. We hope you enjoy this collection of creepy, scary, and eerie snapshots from the neighborhood. Photos by Robert […]

Citizens Celebrate O St. Shops ‘New to the Neighborhood’
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If the retail resilience of Georgetown has not caught your eye of late, it was on full display Oct. 26, thanks to the Citizens Association of Georgetown and Georgetown Main […]

Crime: Escapee Caught; Council Endorses Acting MPD Chief Smith; Police Burnout
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As crime in the nation’s capital continues to be a focus of nation-wide political attention, D.C Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council have shifted to a tougher stance on […]

Ambassador Urban Ahlin Makes Cheerful Debut at House of Sweden
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The Embassy of Sweden hosted a welcoming reception on Oct. 24 for its new Ambassador to the United States, Urban Ahlin, who presented his credentials to President Biden in August […]

Coach Tasha Butts (1982-2023) 
• October 26, 2023

Georgetown University is mourning the loss of their women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts after a two-year battle with breast cancer. Butts was just 41 years old.  The university hired former […]

Mayor’s Crime Bill, ACT Now, Seeks to Curb Violence, Retail Theft, Drug-dealing
• October 23, 2023

The unrelenting increase in crime in Washington, D.C. — particularly homicides, gun violence, carjacking and mass retail robberies —  has all the usually contentious District Council and Office of the Mayor clearly […]

Volta Park Fall Fest: Beautiful Day of Community Fun, Food
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Georgetowners, their families, neighbors and friends came out for a beautiful Saturday of carnival games, bounce houses, face painting, popcorn and more at the Friends of Volta Park’s Fall Festival […]