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Please join us for an Earth Day worth celebrating with a neighborhood clean-up and scavenger hunt, presentations by The Georgetown Garden Club, who will be sharing information about native species, and Trees for Georgetown will be sharing information on climate change.

Casey & Co will be selling annuals, perennials, herbs, and mulch. Little ones will have a chance to ‘Make and Take’ a flower pot and plant some seeds.

Bring your own plant for a plant swap!

There will be food from the Georgetown Grilling Society and live music. Everyone is welcome!

Come out to change the world!

Click here to register.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice profile on self-professed alley kid, Raya Kenney.
• More mundane traffic violence from a driver with a string of speeding tickets.

You may have stopped to look through the shop window. Or maybe you just received a text and stood to read it. Or maybe your child kneeled to tie her shoe. These things surely happened countless times on Saturday just minutes before 1:00 pm.

But if they just happened to occur at exactly 1:00 pm it would have been deadly.

That’s because at that moment a driver slammed his car into two parked cars hard enough to propel them across the sidewalk into shop window.

And the driver? He has ten unpaid speeding tickets dating back to 2019.

The driver owes DC over $2,500 in speeding fines. But like many Maryland and Virginia drivers, this one likely realizes that there is no reason to pay DC camera-issued tickets if you’re not a DC resident. There is no reciprocity. Maryland and Virginia refuses to enforce the tickets against their own residents.

The DC Council passed a bill requiring the Mayor to seek a new reciprocity agreement with Maryland and Virginia to account for camera-issued tickets. The mayor claimed the two states rebuffed the requests, but then it turned out that Bowser never even formally asked. Mayor Bowser has never shown that she cares particularly much about lawless drivers and her failure to even asked Maryland or Virginia to help out is par for the course with her.

So Maryland and Virginia drivers only need to pay camera-issued DC tickets out of the kindness of their hearts.

And the reckless drivers know it.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Driver plows another car into a nail salon. (More on this later).
• Is it time to allow swimming in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers?

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Great old shot from when car dealerships were on M St.
• Speaking of great old shots of M St., here’s another view of it in the 1950s.

Photo by Jon Hayes Photography.

Spring is here. And while most trees haven’t started to leaf out for the season, they will sooner than you think. And once they do, it is critical for residents to water our street trees. So now is the time to make plans for it, especially if you have a young tree on the sidewalk in front of your house or apartment. This is especially true if it was newly planted this year. The basic goal you should have is to water young trees at least once a week, so long as you get a good 20-25 gallons of water. If you can’t water the new trees, try to find a neighbor who can.

The preferred watering device is the ooze tube (the bags that go around the bottom of the trees). You can differentiate them from the not-preferred gator bags because the gator bags have zippers. (They’re not preferred because they can create an unhealthy environment around the trunk and you have to remove them after each use.) With the ooze tube you can just fill it up and let it go.

This week for Where the Streets Had Old Names, GM is mixing it up a bit to explore the inspiration for an old street name that still is in use: Bank Alley.

As GM has written about a bunch in the past, when Georgetown was an independent city, it had a different street naming system from that used in the rest of the District of Columbia. But the independent municipality of Georgetown (and the city of Washington) came to an end in 1871. By the 1890s, Congress forced Georgetown to change most of its street names to comport with the DC system. So most of the old names went away.

But some streets didn’t fit in with the DC system and were left as is. These include Dumbarton, Olive, Prospect, etc. On this list included Bank St. (GM will get to the street versus alley question below).

So we’ve still got Bank Alley/Street. But where did the name come from?