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Photo by Marc Andre

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice piece on Johnny Spero and his new Reverie restaurant.
• Ethics investigation into Jack Evans is stayed, for an unclear reason.

3200 block of Volta Place

GM discussed the ANC results yesterday, but wanted to walk through the rest of how Georgetown voted today (caveat here: these results include votes from Burleith and Hillandale, which use the same precinct as west Georgetown). Here are the results:

At Large Councilmember:

This one’s a bit tricky since each voter has two votes. No surprise that Anita Bonds won. But Georgetown agreed with GM and the citywide tally by giving the second most votes to Elissa Silverman. She actually had 74% the number of Bonds votes. Across the city she got 60% the number of Bonds’ votes. So Georgetown was strongly on her side. Her main competition, Dionne Reeder, trailed Silverman badly in Georgetown, with Silverman getting more than twice Reeder’s total. Continue reading →

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Why GU started putting up “guns prohibited” signs.
• Speaking of GU, GM had to mention that a 22 year old recent GU grad just won a Connecticut State Senate seat representing GM’s hometown. He’s the first Democrat to win the seat since 1973.

Montrose Park

Long time ANC commissioner Ed Solomon and first term commissioner Jim Wilcox appear to have lost their bids to reelection. As of last night, Kishan Putta led Solomon with 68% of the vote. And Gwendolyn Lohse led Wilcox with 66% of the vote.

Assuming these results hold, this will spell the end of a long and noteworthy term for Solomon, who served since 2005. Wilcox, who won the open seat two years ago, faced a strong challenge from Lohse, who was backed by many who disagreed with Wilcox’s combative approach on the commission.

Joe Gibbons, Rick Murphy, Lisa Palmer and Anna Landre won their seats uncontested. Matias Burdman probably won ANC2E08 based on a write in campaign, but that will need to be confirmed.

Photo by Bill Starrels.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Former Malmaison space getting turned into a German beer hall.
• Some more info on Major’s move to the former Appalachian Spring space. (First reported by GM!)

Book Hill

Photo by Eric Brown.

Hey You. Yeah, you. Go vote.

If you live in Georgetown, here’s where you need to go. Look at this map below:

Basically, if you live west of Wisconsin Ave. you vote at Duke Ellington School (at 35th and Reservoir). If you live east of it, you vote at Christ Church at 31st and O St.

Polls are open now and stay open until 8:00. GM’s not even going to pester you with his endorsements! Just go vote!

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Great article on Georgetown’s own Najmieh Batmanglij, a world famous chef and cookbook author. (And mother to an indie rocker).
• GM’s hearing reports of ANC candidate signs being torn down. Not cool! Seriously, if you find yourself doing that, you really need to reevaluate your head. Something’s wrong up there.