While GM is on his honeymoon he’s listing his top ten favorite things about Georgetown. Today is number 5: The Georgetown Current.
GM grew up in a small town with a weekly newspaper that devoted as much ink to the local soccer league as it did to the zoning board. So GM gets a nostalgic joy from reading a weekly paper focused exclusively on the village he lives in.
No other outlet in town would devote so much space to issues like whether there will be lights on a Chevy Chase ballfield. That issue alone has produced a series of unbelievable long letters to the editor. For someone as obsessed with local politics as GM is, this is manna.
And despite its narrow focus, the Georgetown Current still takes its job seriously and produces solid reporting, particularly on development issues. GM looks forward to every Wednesday night when he can get home and read about all the local stories and issues he missed. (He can normally get one to two posts per week piggybacking on their work).
On top of its solid local reporting, the Current covers high school sports, gives you a weekly calender, and runs Tom Sherwood’s excellent column.
For all these reasons, the Georgetown Current is always sitting on GM’s coffee table and is his fifth favorite thing about Georgetown.
Previously:
8: Bistro Lepic
9: Q St.’s Elms
The Georgetown Metropolitan 