The City of Georgetown’s website was one of the top-three finalists for the best city website in the U.S. for medium-sized cities (pop. 35,000 to 100,000). The site was a finalist for the Pinnacle Award from the National Association of Government Webmasters at their annual conference in September in Galveston.
Websites were judged by other webmasters [...]

Georgetown’s Convention and Visitors Bureau won six first-place awards this summer at the annual Texas Association Convention and Visitor Bureaus convention. Georgetown CVB won awards in the following categories:

Advertising award: For display advertisements in publications such as Texas Monthly, D Magazine, and Austin Visitor Guide and a billboard on Interstate 35. Designed by Graphismo.
Tourism [...]

The Georgetown Recreation Center, in conjunction with the Scott & White Blood Mobile, will be hosting a blood drive on Friday, October 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Participants will receive free snacks, a t-shirt and the chance to win cool prizes! Save a life and donate blood! Please call (512) 930-3596 to donate.
Eligibility [...]

Many days of triple-digit summer heat as well as the recession have put tremendous demand on the utility bill assistance fund. John Stock, executive director for The Caring Place, says that the entire $130,000 amount that was budgeted for utility bill assistance in 2009 was depleted by the end of the summer. The program at [...]

Rey Arteaga and his group, Son y No Son, will bring Latin dance music to the library in October. If you’re conversant in Latin dance forms, you’ll hear the influence of Cuban son (the “Son” in the group’s name), Colombian cumbia, Mexican sones and boleros, and Brazilian chorinho, but the group is known to play [...]

Featuring an art auction and delicious chocolate desserts, Art for Animals, A Chocolate Affair, will be held on Sunday, October 18. The annual auction is the biggest fundraiser for the Georgetown Animal Shelter.
The shelter is seeking donations of artwork and hand-crafted items through October 8. Other donations such as gift baskets, travel packages, and other [...]

Interested in birding? Join Georgetown Parks & Recreation on our next guided bird walk on Tuesday, October 20 from 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.  This free program will assist the beginner to avid bird watcher on walks along Georgetown trails for the purpose of identifying bird species. Each guided walk will last approximately three hours [...]

National Night Out, an annual event to support public safety and neighborhood crime prevention, will be held in Georgetown on Tuesday, October 6.
In past years, Georgetown neighborhoods have organized evening block parties on National Night Out, which is sponsored by the Georgetown Police Department. Neighborhoods where people know each other and look out for each [...]

Georgetown Parks & Recreation, in conjunction with the Georgetown Project, will be hosting a post-football game party following the Georgetown Eagles home football game on Friday, September 25. This event, held from 9:30-11:30 pm, will be at the Teen/Senior Center, located next to the Georgetown Recreation Center at 1001 N. Austin Avenue.
Admission is free! Music, [...]

The City of Georgetown Animal Shelter is temporarily suspending adoptions of dogs due to canine respiratory illness at the shelter. New dogs brought to the shelter are being kept in a separate area from affected dogs in order to contain the illness.
Twenty dogs have an upper respiratory condition similar to a common cold that could [...]