Georgetown’s new Recreation Center will be open to the public for its Grand Opening on Saturday, January 31. Ceremonies start at 10 a.m., followed by facility tours and demonstrations. Regular use of the facility begins on Monday, February 2.
“We’re really excited to let everyone come and see it,” says Kimberly Garrett, parks and recreation director. [...]

Here is your chance to say what the library should be doing and how GPL can best communicate with you.  There are two short surveys.  The first survey has questions on what kinds of materials (ex. books, movies, magazines) the library should buy and what types of programs (ex. video games, crafts, author visits) aimed [...]

The 2010 Census hit the ground in Georgetown on January 23 with the opening of an early local office at 3010 Williams Drive. U.S. Census Bureau officials say the office will serve a 15-county area including Austin in the early stages of the decennial population count.
The location will employ 30 to 40 office workers and [...]

As of 12:35 this afternoon, power has been restored to customers affected by an earlier outage.
The power outage occurred at about 10:20 this morning, affecting some 4,300 City of Georgetown electric customers north of Williams Drive, including Sun City. The outage was caused by the foggy, damp conditions which allowed electricity to arc over insulators [...]

A three-story medical office building began construction on January 26 in Georgetown. A groundbreaking ceremony was held that day for the Austin Avenue Professional Plaza at 3201 S. Austin Avenue (see photo below).
The 100,000 square-foot building will include offices for physicians as well as an urgent care clinic, a pathology laboratory, a pharmacy, and other [...]

A march in honor of the MLK Day holiday on January 19 started at noon on Seventh Street next to the Williamson County Courthouse. Some 250 people joined the march that ended at Macedonia Baptist Church on 206 Martin Luther King, Jr. Street where a standing-room only crowd attended an MLK Unity Celebration program. The [...]

Events marking the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday will be held in Georgetown on Monday, January 19. All events are open to the public.
A march and rally to honor the MLK Day holiday will begin at noon on the Square at the Williamson County Courthouse at 710 S. Main Street. The 2009 Citywide MLK Unity [...]

Seventeen Georgetown citizens completed an eight-week Georgetown Citizen Academy program in the fall. The graduates were recognized by the City Council at the January 13 meeting.
The citizens learned about all aspects of City of Georgetown operations, visited city facilities, and learned from City staff. The participants also get some hands-on experience with the City’s equipment, [...]

A 20-year fire and EMS veteran from Richardson has been chosen to head the fire department in Georgetown. Robert Fite will start as the new fire chief for the Georgetown Fire Department on March 2.
Fite is a battalion chief responsible for special operations and training in Richardson, a north-Dallas suburb with a population of 100,000. [...]

On Thursday, February 26, Elizabeth Crook will discuss her career as an author of historical fiction set in the southwestern United States. Her talk begins at 2 p.m. in the second-floor community rooms at the Georgetown Public Library.
Crook is the author of three novels: The Raven’s Bride: A Novel of Sam Houston and Eliza Allen, [...]