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Georgetown Arts 2013
Next week, the House of Sweden will host the 4th Annual Georgetown Arts show. This event, which is organized by the Georgetown Citizens Association, includes art from Georgetown artists (either residents or artists with studios in Georgetown).
It begins Thursday February 7th with an opening reception from 6 – 9 pm. The show continues through the weekend, open each day 11 am – 5 pm. There will be an “artists salon” on Saturday at 2 pm, where several of the artists will be on hand to discuss their work.
So come on out!
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Most Georgetown-related Capital Bikeshare rides are to or from Georgetown, not within Georgetown.
- Are you a creative writer? Come on out to the library every last Tuesday to talk shop with some fellow writers.
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Out of Boundary Lottery Begins for Hyde
Monday was the beginning of the out of boundary lottery process for DC public schools. This is the process by which students who don’t want to attend their designated local school can get a slot at another school.
As discussed here before, for several decades Hyde has been a school mostly filled with students from other neighborhoods. This started to change over the past decade as more Georgetowners decided to send their children to the local school. This has, in turn, reduced the number of slots available to students from other neighborhoods trying to attend Hyde.
One thing parents new to the system might not realize is that even children in the neighborhood have to apply through the lottery for a slot in the pre-Kindergarten program. They are not guaranteed a slot. They do, however, get priority in the lottery. In recent years, some neighborhood children have ended up on the wait list, but GM believes most, if not all, eventually got off the wait list. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- M St. bike lane (which will end in Georgetown) is delayed. But cheers to ANC Commissioner and bike commuter Tom Birch for pushing for it!
- Jack’s Boathouse dispute likely to end up in court, sooner or later.
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Swapsies?
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Want free room and board in Switzerland for a week this summer? If so, then check out this interesting offer that was published on the Georgetown listserv recently:
A family from Zurich, Switzerland, is looking for a house swap this summer so their children can attend the Arena Stage summer camp at Georgetown Visitation July 21-Aug. 3. You can view their property at
http://www.homeexchange. com. You might need to register, but there is no charge. Type the number 376063 in the search box. Peter, who tells me he is originally from the D.C. area, can be contacted at HouseswapZH@ gmail.com.
You can see details of the property here. It’s an interesting way to save on a European trip (one square in the middle of the time when it is awful to be in DC).
You’d have to trust your house to a stranger. But they’d be trusting their place to you. And remember, they’re Swiss. So they’ll probably leave your house neater than how they found it.
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest (today’s theme is Housing Complex):
- Herb Miller abandoning Georgetown.
- Eleanor Norton weighs in on the Jack’s Boathouse situation…
- …but the DC Attorney General won’t.
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