Registration for Girls Volleyball, a new league offered by Georgetown Parks & Recreation, is now underway and will run through January 11. Please note that a $5 late fee will be added starting December 31.
Registration fees are $30 for Georgetown residents, and $40 for nonresidents. The 10 week season begins on January 16, 2010 and [...]

Registration for Co-ed Youth Basketball offered by Georgetown Parks & Recreation will begin on November 30 and run through January 11. Please note that a $5 late fee will be added starting December 31.
Registration fees are $30 for Georgetown residents, and $40 for nonresidents. The 10 week season begins on January 16, 2010 and runs [...]

As the decade came to a close, City of Georgetown staff looked back and picked the top news stories from 2000 through 2009.
1. Georgetown’s population booms
The City’s population at the beginning of the decade was 28,339. The number of residents grew 77 percent to 50,061 by December 2009. That growth was a common theme touching [...]

If it’s time to take down a Christmas tree, recycle it into garden mulch instead of sending it to the landfill. From January 2 through January 30, bring a Christmas tree to the City of Georgetown Collection Station and it will be turned into mulch. Before you drop off your tree, please remove the tree [...]

The Georgetown Recreation Center will close early on New Year’s Eve, Thursday, December 31.  The facility will close at 7:00 p.m., with the indoor pool closing at 6:30 p.m. The Recreation Center will be closed on Friday, January 1 in observance of New Year’s, but will return to normal hours (9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.) [...]

The Georgetown Square is the subject of a new marketing campaign that started December 10. Messages on three existing billboards along Interstate 35 encourage drivers to stop and “Savor the Georgetown Square.”

The billboard messages were developed by the Main Street program’s Economic Restructuring Committee volunteers and Economic Development department staff. The goal is to inform [...]

Residents of Georgetown have two new places to share news of their latest Georgetown finds: shop.georgetown.org and its sister site Facebook.com/ShopGeorgetown. These sites have been created as a way to remind residents of all the terrific items that can be found right here in Georgetown, as well as to encourage visitors to come to town [...]

City of Georgetown facilities and offices will be closed on Thursday, December 24 and Friday, December 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday. City facilities also will be closed on Friday, 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 [...]

Well, it’s almost that time of year again – the holidays are just around the corner. Have you thought about what you are going to give those people on your “hard to shop for” list? Instead of another tie for your dad or music CD for your sister, why don’t you give them a truly [...]

Georgetown Parks & Recreation is looking for instructors that would like to work with Teens and Senior Adults for the upcoming Spring and Summer 2010 Recreation Center classes.
The following types of instructors are needed: music instructors, anime artist, graphic artist, computer instructor, art instructor, foreign language instructor, skateboard instructor and a hip hop dance instructor.
For [...]