The Georgetown Metropolitan

MPD released photos of an individual sought in connection with the shooting murder of Tarek Boothe on January 31st.

According to MPD:

The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for each homicide committed in the District of Columbia. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by sending a text message to 50411.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• How Takeout Tuesday helps local restaurants.
• Some fun mapping Georgetown love stories.

If you’ve used Metrobus over the last month, you might’ve found yourself waiting a lot longer than you expected. Due largely to staffing shortages driven by the Omicron surge, WMATA ran the buses on a reduced weekend schedule all week.

With the surge thankfully subsiding, WMATA restored bus service to normal weekday service yesterday.

Readers may recall the alarm GM was raising last spring after WMATA proposed draconian service cuts to bus service across the city (including in Georgetown). Those cuts, thankfully, were never implemented mostly due to the massive infrastructure bill passed last year.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Over 20 GU students still testing positive for Covid each day. That represents over 7% of all cases in the District.
• A bit more on the M St. shooting last week.

GM’s trying something new. He’s started a TikTok account. He’ll try to fill it with little virtual Georgetown walking tours like this. Follow along if you like the first one.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Takeout Tuesday this week is Brasserie Liberte and Reren Lamen.
• The Asian skewer restaurant, Sticx, has (or will have) a wine bar upstairs called Stonz.

Back in October, GM noted that the 7-Eleven at Wisconsin and O had been closed for months under a nebulous Health Department order. If there were any chance that the store would open at that point, it appears nil now. The signage was completely removed recently.

Moreover the location is no longer listed on the company’s website. (GM’s not sure when it was removed, but it’s definitely gone now).