ANC Questions Removal of K St. Parking Spots

April 24, 2017

Traffic flow and the availability of street parking for residents and out-of-town shoppers, diners, moviegoers and guests is always a contentious issue in Georgetown, especially in the increasingly popular waterfront […]

Mt. Zion Cemetery Ready for Its Own Resurrection


A bright, beautiful Saturday brought out volunteers for a major spring cleaning April 8 at the closed but not forsaken Mt. Zion Cemetery-the Female Union Band Society Cemetery. Most of […]

Gateways 101 for Georgetown

April 19, 2017

The Georgetown Business Improvement District held a community meeting April 5 to introduce representatives from Beyer Blinder Belle, designers for the Georgetown Gateways project, developed through the BID’s Georgetown 2028 […]

A Georgetown Legend Returns: Patrick Ewing Named Hoyas Basketball Coach

April 5, 2017

When Georgetown University — somewhat reluctantly and with some sorrow — did not rehire basketball coach John Thompson III after two losing seasons in row and another denial to the […]

Main Streets DC’s Budget Increase Bodes Well for Georgetown


The Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission passed a unanimous motion April 3 supporting a Georgetown Main Streets Program. Many persons are asking about what the nonprofit is and what it would […]

Car Curiosity for Hyde-Addison Students


The PK-3 class from Hyde-Addison Public School embarked on a field trip two weeks ago just blocks from its school on O Street: the Georgetown Shell at Wisconsin Avenue and […]

Georgetown’s Synagogue Awaits New Rabbi


The search lasted almost three years, but Georgetown’s orthodox synagogue Kesher Israel now awaits the arrival this summer of the congregation’s newly chosen rabbi: Hyim Shafner. “He seems to be […]

GU Dean’s Posthumous ‘Song to My City’ Honored


The Georgetown University professors who gathered in Healy Hall in historic Riggs Library last Tuesday, March 28, were eloquent to the point of tears as they spoke of Carol Lancaster, […]

10 Groups to Get D.C. Funds to Protect Immigrants


On March 1, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced she was establishing a $500,000 discretionary fund to protect immigrants residing in the city from deportation. Proposals were requested from nonprofit organizations and law […]

Mt. Zion Cemetery’s Day of Blessing and Clean Up


At its annual Day of Blessing and Clean Up, this Saturday, April 8, Georgetown’s historic Mt. Zion Cemetery will have two things to celebrate. After years of negotiating, the partnership […]