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


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 […]

Duke Ellington School Fight for Autonomy Heats Up            


Ever since the old Western High School at 35th and R Streets NW was transformed physically and curriculum-wise two decades ago into the current palatial $178.5 million Duke Ellington School […]

D.C.’s ‘Night Mayor’ to Head Restaurant Association


Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), the trade association representing restaurants and the foodservice industry in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, will have a new president & CEO — Shawn Townsend […]

Kids Korner: What Local Kids Like About Georgetown Shops 


            By Eleanor Assey (3rd Grade)  When I travel with my parents to different cities, countries, and in other parts of D.C., many of these […]

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 


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


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. […]

Farewell, RFK. Thanks for the Memories


If you walked into the rusty, dilapidated stadium named for Robert Francis Kennedy on Dec. 8 for the kickoff of the Farewell RFK Stadium campaign, you shared an initial emotion […]

Community Calendar, Dec. 12 – Jan. 11, 2023 


Through Jan. 22, 5 to 10 p.m., evenings, Georgetown Glow, Georgetown commercial district. Experience the magic of light in the region’s only curated outdoor public light art experience set against the […]