Mark your calendar now for the Georgetown AirFest where you can see, hear, and take a ride in a WW II-era bomber or fighter plane. The Georgetown AirFest will be held at the Georgetown Municipal Airport on Saturday, September 25. Get up close to the B-25 Devil Dog bomber, the P-51 Mustang fighter, or a [...]

The City of Georgetown is sponsoring a neighborhood cleanup day on Saturday, July 31 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. On that day, the Code Enforcement Department will lead a cleanup effort to collect brush, trash, or bulky waste items like refrigerators or old tires. The neighborhood cleanup day is for single-family residences and duplexes [...]

Suddenlink, in conjunction with Georgetown Parks & Recreation and Lonestar Cinemas, will be showing a free Movie in the Park on Thursday, August 5. The featured movie will be Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (rated G), and will be shown in the gazebo area of San Gabriel Park. The movie is scheduled to begin [...]

T-shirts for the 2010 Pink Heals Tour stop in Georgetown are now on sale at the Visitor Information Center, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, Fire Administration, and all City fire stations. The T-shirts are $15 each. (Georgetown firefighters Nicholas Twomey and Matthew Morrow at right.) Proceeds from the T-shirt sales benefit the Breast Cancer Resource [...]

City utility crews will be inspecting wastewater lines again in some areas of Georgetown starting in August. Wastewater lines will be assessed using small, remotely-operated cameras and non-toxic smoke. The testing is part of a state-mandated examination of wastewater systems operating in the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone to ensure the protection of groundwater sources. Continuing [...]

Georgetown Animal Shelter is offering free barn cats for anyone that has a farm or ranch and would like some help with rodent control. The cats will be spayed/neutered and given their rabies vaccination. Semi-feral is a term used to describe animals that are not completely socialized to humans. Because of this, these cats are [...]

Georgetown City Manager Paul Brandenburg will present an overview of his proposal for the 2011 budget at a 3 p.m. public workshop this afternoon. The council will have the opportunity to discuss the budget proposal in today’s workshop and in a budget workshop at 4 p.m. tomorrow. Both meetings will be held in the Council [...]

By City of Georgetown ordinance, fireworks of any kind are not allowed in the City Limits of Georgetown or within 5,000 feet of the City Limits, unless they are used in a permitted display authorized by the Georgetown Fire Department. The relevant ordinance revision for this rule was enacted in 2006. Neither the possession nor [...]

Last week, as part of the City’s Home Repair Program, volunteers from three Georgetown churches helped to fix up homes in Georgetown. At a house on Church Street, 12 to 15 volunteers removed dead trees and debris from the yard, trimmed trees, and made a number of repairs to the house including new siding, window [...]

The 58th annual Juneteenth celebration in Georgetown was sponsored by the Georgetown Cultural Citizen Memorial Association. The event at the Community Center in San Gabriel Park included a proclamation read by Council Member Gabe Sansing, a solo sung by Cameron Durden, presentations, music, a barbecue lunch, basketball tournament, raffle, and other activities. Below are photos [...]