Having shepherded the City through 25 municipal elections and having worked for 35 different city council members, City Secretary Sandra Lee soon brings to a close her 20-year career working at City Hall when she retires this week.
She has served six mayors including Tim Kennedy, Bill Connor, Leo Wood, MaryEllen Kersch, Gary Nelon, and George [...]

Volunteers with the Rotary Club of Georgetown, Georgetown Junior Leadership, and neighborhood residents helped to plant 29 trees at Summercrest Park on December 13. Heather Brewer, the City’s urban forester who coordinated the event, says 35 people helped to plant the trees. Brewer says the species that were planted, including Monterrey oaks, chinkapin oaks, bur [...]

When it’s time to “un-decorate” your Christmas tree and take it out of the living room, instead of sending it to the landfill, you can recycle it.
Bring your Christmas tree to the City of Georgetown’s Collection Station from January 2 through January 31 and we’ll grind it up and provide you with mulch, free of [...]

A dog-chaining prohibition approved by the city council in June goes into effect on December 24. The ordinance provided for a six-month period to allow dog owners to build fencing in order to comply with the new rule. The ban means that a dog cannot be kept chained or tied to a stake all day [...]

City of Georgetown facilities and offices will be closed on Wednesday, December 24 and Thursday, December 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday. City facilities also will be closed on Thursday, January 1 for the New Year’s holiday. This includes the following:
• Animal Shelter, 110 W.L. Walden Drive
• City Hall, 113 E. Eighth Street
• Georgetown Municipal Complex, 300-1 [...]

The Village Pool will be closed as of Friday, December 19 due to a federal law requiring a new type of pool drain cover. The new component is designed to eliminate entrapment hazards.
The new drain covers have been ordered, but are not yet available due to the tremendous demand. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission [...]

The Georgetown Public Library’s 2008 Gingerbread Contest was the best yet! Twenty-six sweetly fragrant and endlessly creative entries have graced the lobby for the past ten days and hundreds of people cast their votes for their favorites. The winners are:
Cody Hullum’s beach house (in the original design, age 8 and younger category);
Victor Manuel’s police station [...]

The eighth annual Breakfast with Santa will be held Saturday, December 13 at Fire Station 1, located at 301 Industrial Avenue. Pancakes, sausage, orange juice, and coffee will be served in two sessions at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Children also can get their picture taken with Santa. The annual event is sponsored by the [...]

Featured in This Old House Magazine as one of the Top 12 Places to Buy on Old Home, the Holiday Home Tour December 13 and 14 will show guests just why Georgetown earned that honor.
Restoring an old house gives new meaning to the terms reduce, reuse and recycle! Recently, the United States began closely [...]

Doing holiday shopping? Consider adding a few items to include in for care packages for troops serving in Iraq.
Look for collection barrels in Georgetown where you can drop off items to send to the 2-4 Aviation Battalion. The 600-member unit of the U.S. Army is currently stationed in Iraq. The battalion, based in Fort Hood, [...]