The Georgetown Cookie Tour: Sweets and Small Business 
• December 17, 2025

By Annabel Taylor  Georgetown Cookie Tour participants sought shelter from the cold, stopping into one independent business after another along Wisconsin Avenue. Friendly volunteers greeted them and handed out locally baked cookies at each shop.  The Georgetown Cookie Tour, hosted by Georgetown […]

Book Hill Is Budgeted for Exciting Improvements
• December 15, 2025

“We are very happy, delighted and grateful,” were some of the comments by the presidents of the Friends of Book Hill Park and the Georgetown Garden Club after an evening […]

A Holiday Tradition Takes Shape … in Gingerbread  
• December 9, 2025

By Kalyn Tippett    Georgetown introduced a new holiday tradition this month with the debut of the Georgetown Gingerbread House Competition, a community initiative that brings together some of the neighborhood’s top culinary talent to raise funds for […]

Georgetown Holiday Events Preview 
• November 11, 2025

By Mia Pech and Kalyn Tippett   Santa Swaps His Sleigh for Donuts at Volta Park  On Saturday, Dec. 6, families can enjoy a morning filled with holiday spirit, sweet […]

Community Calendar: June 11-July 15
• June 10, 2025

 TAKE OVER THE BAR  Wednesday, June 11   This month’s event in the Citizens Association of Georgetown’s Take Over the Bar Series will be at the rooftop bar of Rosewood Washington, […]

A Native Georgetowner Says Goodbye 
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Goodbye, Georgetown. I am moving away, after a lifetime in this neighborhood (I did leave for several years for college and jobs elsewhere).   I am a native Georgetowner, raised on […]

House Tour Trend: Kitchen-free Dining Rooms
• April 28, 2025

Every year in springtime, a tour of six to eight Georgetown houses and a  high tea (including crustless sandwiches and petit fours) are organized by St. John’s Episcopal Church at 3240 O St. […]

Glass Houses: Jessica and Ezra Glass
• March 12, 2025

Jessica and Ezra Glass are taking Georgetown’s traditional charms into new territory. It’s Georgetown’s side streets and unexplored corners that occupy the mental real estate and imaginations of Jessica and […]

Georgetowners of the Year 2024   
• December 11, 2024

The naming of Georgetowners of the Year has been a tradition of The Georgetowner newspaper for decades. Devoted and influential members of the neighborhood have received this distinction, such as […]

Thank You, Summer Interns!
• August 14, 2024

The Georgetowner would like to take a moment to recognize our talented group of summer interns. Many thanks to the Shining Six for all your help — and best of […]