News & Politics
The Man Behind the Bridge: Francis Scott Key
Neighborhood News
Georgetown Garden Club Begins Centennial at Evermay with Edwina von Gal
News & Politics
Business Ins & Outs: Reverie, Molteni&C, Ice Cream Jubilee
Arts & Society
Actor Jeffrey Wright Featured at Nancy Hanks Lecture
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March 2024 Downtowner News
Business: Coming in 2024
January 8, 2024
•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 […]
Town Topics: Year in Review 2023
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What a difference a year makes — even in Georgetown. The top Town Topics of 2023 are quite different from those of 2022 — except for one. Crime in Washington […]
A Meeting with Kuwait’s History-Making Ambassador to the U.S.
December 28, 2023
•I recently met with Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States. She presented her credentials to President Biden on April 19, 2023 and is the first Kuwaiti woman […]
Retail Therapy for the Gray Days Ahead
December 27, 2023
•I don’t shop. I like to say I am looking for visual stimulation. Happily, there are now two new options in Georgetown within a few storefronts of each other with […]
Sponsored: Trees for Georgetown Community Announcement
December 22, 2023
•[Sponsored Content] Community Announcement ~ December 2023 Some of you may have received a message from the president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, regarding “a group that is […]