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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The Post explains how exactly that pop-up Target Store works.
- The Georgetowner sits down with CAG president Jennifer Altemus.
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The Morning Metropolitan
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Chris Murray Speaks at CAG Gallery Opening
Last night CAG hosted an opening reception for its inaugural art show GeorgetownArts 2009 at the old Smith and Hawken space. To help mark the occasion, the founder of Govinda Gallery, Chris Murray, shared his story of art and Georgetown to the assembled crowd.
Murray came to Georgetown from Manhattan to attend Georgetown University. After seeing the university through the tumultuous late 60’s, Murray graduated in 1969. As he told the crowd, Govinda Gallery was born when he was driving back from his job teaching at Georgetown Day School. He passed the building on 34th and Prospect and saw that it was for rent. Out of curiosity he called up the landlord and found out that the rent was cheap. Although he lacked any idea or business plan for the space, he jumped at the chance to run a small shop. Govinda Gallery is still at that same spot 34 years later.
The idea to run a gallery grew slowly. At first he had a couple of artist friends and held a show for them. In telling this story, Murray waxed nostalgic for all the great galleries that existed in Georgetown in the early 70s. He mentioned Harry Lunn (who “discovered” Ansel Adams), Barbara Frederick, Jose Nunez, and Lee Silverstein (who, according to Murray, didn’t suffer fools gladly). It’s evident that even from the beginning Murray relished the village and all its comings and goings. Continue reading
Come Out and Support Georgetown Artists
This weekend, CAG is hosting GeorgetownArts 2009, a festival highlighting Georgetown artists. The show will take place at the old Smith and Hawken. It will be kicked off tomorrow night with a talk by Lovinda Gallery founder Chris Murray. Wine, cheese, and (of course) Georgetown Cupcakes will be served.
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Chancellor Rhee Speaks to CAG
Last night Chancellor of the D.C. Public Schools Michelle Rhee spoke to the Citizens Association of Georgetown at the Hyde-Addison School. Rhee spoke for about an hour to the packed crowd of mostly supportive listeners.
Before the meeting, however, a set of impressive student ambassadors gave members of the audience personal tours of the Hyde and Addison buildings. GM was particularly impressed with the poise and enthusiasm of his three ambassadors.
Now to the meeting: Rhee started it off with a quick introductory speech. She thanked Hyde principal Dana Nerenberg and congratulated her on being one of DCPS’s exemplary principals. Specifically she cited two of Nerenberg’s accomplishments.
First, Rhee mentioned that Nerenberg had developed a program to improve special education by offering Hyde as a location for more “inclusion kids”. To accommodate the addition children, Nerenberg worked with school building czar Alan Lew to completely renovate the empty Addison school. The school took over the Addison school last spring. Now kindergarten through first grade are in Hyde, while second through fifth grade are in the gleaming Addison building.
Second Rhee mentioned Nerenberg’s work with the principals of Mann and Janney. Together they developed a collaborative program for their three schools to help spread their success to six less highly achieving schools. The program enables the struggling schools to learn best practices from the higher achieving schools.
After speaking about Nerenberg, Rhee stated that we are nowhere near being able to say we can provide a good education to all the kids in the school district. But despite telling a journalist last year that she would give herself a failing grade, Rhee stated that there are nonetheless hopeful signs of progress. Specifically she mentioned that the improvements that the fourth graders made in math last year put the District in first place versus all the fifty states in terms year-over-year improvements.
Adorably, shortly after Rhee made this claim a student ambassador raised his hands and wanted to clarify that it was in fact his class-year that had increased its performance so well. The crowd got a kick out of that. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Whitehurst Freeway by Kevin H.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Carol Joynt reminisces about Neames Market.
- Georgetown resident quits six figure office job to become a farmer, sustainably.
- Georgetown Voice digs into the role CAG and the ANC had in the formation of Magis Row.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Georgetown Cafe by Caroline Treadway.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- A balloon flew over Georgetown yesterday to take photos. No national scandal ensued.
- GU student who’s trying to hire a personal assistant speaks with the Post.
- Reminder: Chancellor Rhee speaks to CAG tonight at the Hyde School.
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Lanier Holds Court for CAG
Last night, the Citizens Association of Georgetown held its September meeting at the Thomas Moser store on M St. Georgetowner and real estate magnate Anthony Lanier held court for the entirety of the meeting dispensing his wisdom and world view to the packed furniture show room.
A native of Vienna (Austria, not Virginia), Lanier arrived to Georgetown in the 80’s. He founded East Banc in 1987, and has since then gradually brought the best of European urbanism to our village through fantastic projects like Cady’s Alley.
Last night, Lanier spoke off-the-cuff for over an hour discussing his projects, both past and future, and the challenges we face making Georgetown even better. It was a fascinating window into the business of real estate and the thinking of a man who’s been called more than once the “Mayor of Georgetown”.
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If You Got a Problem…
Last week CAG issued a handy contact sheet for citizens. It’s a nice comprehensive list that touches on most issues that come up here in Georgetown:
■ Any illegal activity (violent crimes, theft, vandalism, noise violations, public urination, trespassing, et cetera): You must call 911 so a report is filed.
■ City services (street and sidewalk maintenance, trash, rats, trees): Call 311 and follow up if necessary. It could take several calls to resolve your issue.
■ Georgetown University student conduct issues (trash, noise, vandalism): Call the university’s 24-hour SNAP hotline, 202-687-8413. SNAP will respond to calls Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Call both SNAP and 911 for serious violations.
■ Georgetown University off-campus student life: Contacts are director Anne Koester, at 202-687-3199 or ayk2@georgetown.edu, and Ray Danieli, at 202-687-3428 or rfd8@georgetown.edu.
■ To record complaints on the West Village People’s site, e-mail Gtown411@ymail.com. Your name will not be associated with the complaint. The recording of complaints is vital for the tracking of trends.
■ Trash violations: Charlene.Barber@dc.gov.
■ Rats: Gerard.Brown1@dc.gov or 202-535-2636.
■ Historic preservation: Start with our Web site, cagtown.org.
■ Tree issues: Call 311 or contact BestyEmes@aol.com.
■ Any illegal activity (violent crimes, theft, vandalism, noise violations,public urination, trespassing, et cetera): You must call 911 so areport is filed.■ City services (street and sidewalk maintenance, trash, rats, trees):Call 311 and follow up if necessary. It could take several calls toresolve your issue.■ Georgetown University student conduct issues (trash, noise, vandalism):Call the university’s 24-hour SNAP hotline, 202-687-8413.SNAP will respond to calls Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.Call both SNAP and 911 for serious violations.■ Georgetown University off-campus student life: Contacts are directorAnne Koester, at 202-687-3199 or ayk2@georgetown.edu, andRay Danieli, at 202-687-3428 or rfd8@georgetown.edu.■ To record complaints on the West Village People’s site, e-mailGtown411@ymail.com. Your name will not be associated with thecomplaint. The recording of complaints is vital for the tracking oftrends.■ Trash violations: Charlene.Barber@dc.gov.■ Rats: Gerard.Brown1@dc.gov or 202-535-2636.■ Historic preservation: Start with our Web site, cagtown.org.■ Tree issues: Call 311 or contact BestyEmes@aol.com.Our association’s newsletter this month goes into ■ Any illegal activity (violent crimes, theft, vandalism, noise violations,public urination, trespassing, et cetera): You must call 911 so areport is filed.■ City services (street and sidewalk maintenance, trash, rats, trees):Call 311 and follow up if necessary. It could take several calls toresolve your issue.■ Georgetown University student conduct issues (trash, noise, vandalism):Call the university’s 24-hour SNAP hotline, 202-687-8413.SNAP will respond to calls Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.Call both SNAP and 911 for serious violations.■ Georgetown University off-campus student life: Contacts are directorAnne Koester, at 202-687-3199 or ayk2@georgetown.edu, andRay Danieli, at 202-687-3428 or rfd8@georgetown.edu.■ To record complaints on the West Village People’s site, e-mailGtown411@ymail.com. Your name will not be associated with thecomplaint. The recording of complaints is vital for the tracking oftrends.■ Trash violations: Charlene.Barber@dc.gov.■ Rats: Gerard.Brown1@dc.gov or 202-535-2636.■ Historic preservation: Start with our Web site, cagtown.org.■ Tree issues: Call 311 or contact BestyEmes@aol.com.Our association’s newsletter this month goes into more
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Save The Circulator!
As GM reported on Monday, DDOT is considering a significant cut in the Circulator service through Georgetown. GM has found out that the proposal is a lot further on than he feared and thus the necessity for action is much more urgent.
DDOT has decided to cut the Circulator extension based on budgetary concerns and ridership totals. Apparently Jack Evans has already fought the cut and lost and City Administrator Neil Albert has already signed off on the plan. The only hope we have to keep the service is for residents and businesses to appeal to Mayor Fenty directly.
So please write to the Mayor at:
Mayor Adrian Fenty
Executive Office of the Mayor
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 316
Washington, DC 20004
or email at Mayor@DC.gov
And let him know that cutting Circulator service to Georgetown in half is an unacceptable reduction in bus service to a corridor that has already lost a significant amount of service in the last two years.
A sample letter prepared by CAG is after the jump: Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Building complex at Wisconsin at Whitehaven (including the British School building) sold for $62 million.
- Vox Populi interviews CAG President Jennifer Altemus.
- Oprah in town.
Photo by Flickr user InspirationDC used under Creative Commons license.
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