Photo by Jon.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- More information on the Good Stuff fire.
- Rose Park Farmers market finally opens again today, from 3:00 to 7:00.
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WWII Flyby Planned for Friday
Photo by D. Miller.
This Friday, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of VE Day a major fleet of historic WWII planes will perform a flyby of DC and Georgetown will get a front row seat.
At approximately noon, the planes will fly down the Potomac River right by Georgetown. They will follow the river to the Lincoln Memorial at which point they will head out over the mall. After passing by the WWII Memorial and the Capitol, they will head back out over the river. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jon.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Good Mother’s Day options around Georgetown.
- This is a different Georgetown, but it’s too funny not to share.
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Share a Drink with GM for a Good Cause
Hey, do you want to have some drinks in an awesome setting, win some cool prizes, and do some good? Of course you do! So come on out next Tuesday to the Graham Hotel roof for the annual fundraiser of GM’s daughter’s school: Georgetown’s Children’s House of Washington.
The funds are being raised for scholarships to the school. And to do so, there will be auctions of a wide range of items, including a whole bunch of wine and food.
It should be a fun time for a good cause and a great school, so come on out and tip back a few with GM! Buy your tickets here.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Mike Maguire.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Good Stuff Eatery suffers kitchen fire. No major damage reported.
- K-Pop star, now a GU student.
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We Need Your Support for Hyde Addison!
We need your support to ensure that the improvements to Hyde-Addison go forward as planned! Right now the city is finalizing a budget, and the council needs to hear from citizens to demand that the 2016 budget specifically include a budget for the critical improvements that have been long promised to Georgetown’s elementary school. Please consider adding your name to the petition by following this link!
Here’s the petition:
TO: Chairman Mendelson, Chairman Grosso, Councilmember Evans, Councilmember Allen, Councilmember Bonds, Councilmember Alexander
CC: Mayor Bowser, Deputy Mayor Niles, Chancellor HendersonOur Hyde-Addison E.S. community is grateful the Mayor’s FY16 Budget Proposal includes $22.8m for the completion of our campus modernization. However, our community was stunned to see the Proposed Budget delays the funding and construction start date for our Hyde-Addison Addition until 2017 despite being assured on March 26, 2015 that construction would begin in May/June 2016.
CC: Mayor Bowser, Deputy Mayor Niles, Chancellor HendersonOur Hyde-Addison E.S. community is grateful the Mayor’s FY16 Budget Proposal includes $22.8m for the completion of our campus modernization. However, our community was stunned to see the Proposed Budget delays the funding and construction start date for our Hyde-Addison Addition until 2017 despite being assured on March 26, 2015 that construction would begin in May/June 2016.
Without this reallocation of the funding into FY16, our campus modernization—which DGS has been working on since fall 2012—will be stopped mid-way and our children will suffer. Our modernization has already been delayed three times. It was originally scheduled to start in 2013, then 2014 and most recently in 2015.
Simply put, our children and community must not be expected to wait three more years before having access to a fully-resourced campus—complete with sorely needed athletic space, additional classroom space, an updated media center, all-school meeting and performance space and ADA-compliant fixtures.
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FACTS ABOUT HYDE-ADDISON E.S:
-2014-2015 school year: enrollment of 305 students, facilities are >100% capacity
-41% in-boundary; 59% out-of-boundary
-students from all 8 Wards
-951 applications for SY2015-2016 Lottery
-strong year-on-year academic performance
-excellent teachers
-dynamic, visionary principal
-highly regarded special needs programming
WHY DOES HYDE-ADDISON NEED AN ADDITION?
-we do not have a gymnasium and/or athletic fields—of a total 58 DCPS elementary schools, we are the only one that does not have functioning indoor and/or outdoor athletic space
-we do not have any unused classrooms to accommodate new students—according to the most recent Master Facilities Plan, the City projects our in-boundary student population will double in the next couple years; in addition to this growth, last year’s School Boundary Plan expanded Hyde-Addison’s boundaries to take in more students from neighboring Burleith
-we have no indoor meeting space
-we have no performing arts space
-our library is under-resourced and sits in a small basement room
-our cafeteria is too small for our current enrollment
-our campus is not ADA compliant
-our campus’ two buildings are not connected—our children must walk through rain, snow, ice and heat in order to move from one building to the other for lunch, science, library, the front office or the nurse
-we cannot provide arts instruction on-campus
-our kids lose an hour instructional time each week because we must bus them off-site for curriculum-mandated arts instruction
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The cat cafe is not really going to be a cafe.
- Houston-based women’s clothing store to take over half of Bistro Francais.
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