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5 days ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
Washington, D.C.’s new budget for 2025, 2026 — delayed, uncertain, smaller and controversial — is on the table. Frustrated city officials have a good excuse for the situation however. In February, the federal government cut back D.C.’s budget allotment by $1 billion, and now it seems Congress won’t fix it. After weeks of, at times, heated negotiations, Mayor Muriel Bowser presented the District Council on May 27 with a revised budget, including some cuts in services and programs.
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1 week ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
Q: How do you know when it is officially summer in Washington, D.C.?
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3 weeks ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
Ask Georgetowners who have resided here since the 1960s and they’ll remember the classic Fairfax Hotel at 2100 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Most often missed: the famed Jockey Club with its dark paneled walls, rich leather chairs, oil paintings of racehorses and a wealth of stories about regulars Nancy Reagan, Jackie Kennedy and, even earlier, Bing Crosby. Those are all memories now. The Fairfax has been transformed into a new option for high-end senior living: Inspir, a Maplewood Senior Living brand.
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1 month ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
The “May” meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) was held on April 28 and was a mixed bag of news and notices. Beginning with the Police Report, Metropolitan Police Second District Commander Tatiana Savoy said how much she appreciated tips and help from Georgetowners in reducing crime in the area. The biggest problem areas continue to be theft from autos in parking areas around Safeways and S Street — as well as, to the south, Water Street at night.
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1 month ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
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. NW, as their annual fundraiser. The houses are always different each year and usually include several of Georgetown’s iconic townhouses and one or two mansions, all opened for a one-day visit by their generous owners. Organizers try to cluster homes on the tour so that viewers can walk to them easily.
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1 month ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
About 100 people crowded into the cozy upstairs dining room of the GeorgeTown Club on April 8 to have lunch and to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Shane Harris, formerly with the Washington Post, talk about how national security interests have changed under the Trump administration.
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2 months ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
The “April” meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission, held on March 31, delivered two bits of good news. The first was regarding public safety. There were no violent crimes to report, announced Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Danielle Vitatoe. She then added that she had no information about a robbery that had reportedly occurred that afternoon, just before the meeting. “Get back to you when I know more,” she said.
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2 months ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
It was just a week ago March 10 when the usually calm Mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser sounded a stunning alarm. “D.C. will lose $ 1.1 billion of our budgeted funds if the continuing resolution (CR) passed by Congress to fund the government until Sept. 30 is passed by the Senate. That means devastating cuts from funds for schools, for police and for economic growth!”“We are now suddenly focused on our survival,” the mayor proclaimed.
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2 months ago | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
A flurry of official communications from the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission to Mayor Muriel Bowser and other city officials — highlighting two urgent, if not unexpected, matters facing Georgetown — preceded the March 3 meeting of ANC 2E. First is the projected D.C. budget shortfall of some $1 billion. Second is the permanent ending of rush-hour parking limitations on key commercial curbsides and traffic lanes of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
georgetowner.com | Peggy Sands
Georgetowners were aware for months that Joe Sternlieb, the well known CEO and top spokesperson for Georgetown’s very active Business Improvement District (GBID), was leaving his position as CEO-president of more than 12 years. But it’s another thing to go to a farewell party in a popular Georgetown waterfront restaurant, Nick’s Riverside Grill, that was filled with city VIPs, BID staffers, board members past and present and Georgetown residents and workers all gathered to say goodbye.
