Three Dead from Gun Violence Including Local 14-Year-Old
A 25-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy were fatally shot in separate incidents in Greenbelt over the weekend. Meanwhile, another man died Sunday after succumbing to injuries from an earlier shooting. Juan Gonzalez, 25; Carltin Bayong, 14; and Mancel Johnson, 49, were all fatally shot in the Franklin Park area of the city. Gonzalez was […]
Some Goddard Employees to Vacate Buildings Beginning This Week
On Monday, September 22 at 2:12 p.m. a memo from Associate Center Director Raymond J. Rubilotta was sent to all Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) employees advising them that the center had been working for months on areas of transformation and now had the green light from agency leadership to move ahead in one of […]
ERHS Graduate Tramell Tillman Wins Emmy Award for Severance
Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) graduate Tramell Tillman has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance as Seth Milchick in the Apple TV+ series Severance (for more on Tillman and that role see our May 8 issue). Tillman makes history as the first Black man to […]
PGCPS Urgently Seeks 135 Bus Drivers to Cover Routes
A week-two update from Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) said some bus routes are still experiencing delays, but they are making progress in getting additional drivers on the road. Staff is also working to “optimize” routes to increase efficiency. Initially, calls to the district’s transportation hotline were averaging 6,000 a day but the volume […]
Public Works Employees Seek Charter Change for Unionization
At the start of the Monday, September 8 meeting of the Greenbelt City Council, during petitions and requests, Michael Canavan, a 39-year resident of Greenbelt and an employee of Public Works for five-and-a-half years, read a letter from Public Works employees. The letter requests a change to the city charter (section 3, paragraph 22) and […]
PGCPS Report Flags Payments To Absent Board Member, More
Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) Office of Integrity and Compliance (OIC) has released its first report, flagging a handful of significant findings. They include “wasteful” compensation of close to $10,000 to former school board member David Murray, who stepped down after it was discovered he was living out of state and working full-time for […]
Trump Nullifies NASA Unions; GESTA Says Its Union is Strong
Just ahead of Labor Day, President Trump took aim at NASA and a handful of other federal agencies’ unions, seeking to nullify them through Executive Order (EO). It comes at a time of mass layoffs and deferred resignations. The EO, signed August 28, represents “the largest rollback of labor protections for NASA’s employees in history,” […]
City Council Nominations Open Monday; Noncitizens May Run
On Monday, August 18, the period in which to file as a candidate for Greenbelt City Council will begin. Any qualified voter who is at least 18 years of age is eligible to run. Beginning this year, that includes noncitizens. All-Resident Voting In the last election the question of allowing noncitizens who meet residency requirements […]
Seasonal Ground Bees Emerge In Greenbelt, Not Aggressive
Last week we heard from a resident about how ground bees were being treated in Greenbelt, after seeing workers spray a nest with RAID. “While their sudden appearance may have caused alarm, most ground bees are native, nonaggressive pollinators that pose little to no risk to the public,” said the reader. “Unlike wasps or hive bees, ground bees are solitary […]
Former Superintendent’s Payout From PGCPS Totals $877,578.70
Former Superintendent Millard House II received a payout from Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) of $877,578.70, almost $150,000 more than previously known or estimated by news reports. On July 24, the News Review reported that House must have received at least $733,992, which we calculated based on our projections of 24 months of his […]