The Lone Star Rail District announced Monday that they will begin engineering and environmental studies before the end of the year for regional passenger rail. The proposed LSTAR commuter rail line will provide service from Georgetown to San Antonio with 16 rail stations in between.
State Senator Kirk Watson said Monday at a news conference in [...]

Update: At their Tuesday meeting, the city council did not suspend the current 2-hour limit on downtown parking. However, by a 7 – 0 vote, the council did move to lengthen the limit to 3 hours and reduce fines. A refined ordinance change is scheduled for second reading on November 10 and, if approved, would [...]

Sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s provided a perfect backdrop for the two-day Art in the Square festival this weekend. Artists from across the country displayed their work in the streets around the Courthouse Square in Georgetown. The event was co-sponsored by the City of Georgetown and the Georgetown Arts & Culture Board.
Paintings in [...]

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 [...]

A Georgetown firm that manufactures electronic parts for airplanes and medical devices begins a major plant expansion on Wednesday. AirBorn starts construction on a new 58,000 square-foot facility in a business park at 3500 Snead Drive in Georgetown. Company representatives and local officials will break ground at the new facility site at 10 a.m. on [...]

A new Lakeway Drive Bridge over Interstate 35 is one project being considered for funding by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. On April 29, CAMPO will take public comment on funding priorities for spending $29.2 million, which is the amount from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that CAMPO can allocate to transportation projects [...]

A new request for state reimbursement to pay for the cost of widening FM 1460 will be on the city council’s agenda at their regular meeting April 28. If approved, the council resolution would authorize staff to seek state funding for the project under the Texas Department of Transportation’s Pass-Through Finance Program.
In November, Georgetown voters [...]

A firm with promising technology for fighting cancer is joining the Texas Life-sciences Collaboration Center in Georgetown. Molecular Templates, Inc. announced last week that it will become the sixth firm to join the biotech center.
Dr. Eric Poma, CEO of Molecular Templates, says he expects three employees to move to the TLCC this summer. The company [...]

Southwestern University has received a $461,340 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to purchase laboratory equipment for the Texas Life-Sciences Collaboration Center, a nonprofit educational entity that is a partnership of Southwestern, the City of Georgetown, and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce.
The funds will enable the TLCC to equip a full-service [...]

The City of Georgetown’s economic development department is beginning a brown bag lunch series to be held on the fourth Thursday each month. The first 60-minute session will start at noon on February 26 in the Texas History Room on the second floor at the Georgetown Public Library, located at 402 W. Eighth Street. The [...]