NASA Worksession Ponders Concerns and Reassurance
In the Greenbelt City Council’s annual worksession with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), held December 9, discussions ranged widely over the mutual interests of Greenbelt and GSFC. After Center Director Dennis Andrucyk described the center’s exciting upcoming missions and initiatives in science and technology, attention focused on more earthly topics. Associate Center Director […]
Alsobrooks Discusses Maglev, Beltway Widening with Council
This is the second of three parts of a report on the November 30 worksession between Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and the Greenbelt City Council. Council addressed a number of city- and county-related issues in which transportation played a significant role in the discussion, both during and beyond the pandemic. The discussion on […]
Workshop with County Exec Alsobrooks Addresses Covid
On Monday, November 30, the Greenbelt City Council met with Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and her staff for a two-hour worksession. After a welcome by Mayor Colin Byrd, Alsobrooks emphasized that the county was the hardest hit in the region by Covid-19, with over 39,000 cases to date and current high rates of […]
Co-op FY20 AGM’s Good News Tempered by Pandemic Realities
At the Annual General Meeting of Greenbelt Consumer Co-operative on November 7, approximately 60 members heard the good news that Co-op, for the first time in three years, had posted a profit. Manager Dan Gillotte was also happy to state that the store had not, through the day of the meeting, had a positive Covid-19 […]
Greenbelt Mask Makers Win Community Partner Award
Although unable to attend the ceremony in Rockville, the Greenbelt Mask Makers felt privileged to win the Montgomery County Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) Community Partner of the Year award. Early in the pandemic – in fact before COVID-19 received pandemic status – ARC staffer Kimberley Njowusi requested masks from the Greenbelt Police Station, the […]
Royal Farms Loses Council Vote But Wins Carte Blanche
In its regular meeting on Monday, October 5, the Greenbelt City Council voted to oppose the Royal Farms application to the county to build a gas station, a convenience store and an additional commercial building at the intersection of Greenbelt Road and Capitol Drive, near Capitol Cadillac. A four-to-three majority of council voted to oppose […]
How Does This Newspaper Get to Its Gentle Readers?
The News Review has multiple ways of getting to its readers. Many read it electronically, though each week we send a bunch of paper copies out by U.S. Postal Service to folks who still have a hankering for their News Review, sometimes after decades living elsewhere. A significant number of papers get to readers via […]
El Concejo Aprueba un acuerdo entre FOP y la ciudad en una sesión acalorada
El gran evento en la reunión del Ayuntamiento de Greenbelt del lunes 13 de julio fue la aprobación propuesta del Acuerdo de Negociación Colectiva (CBA) entre la ciudad y la Orden Fraternal de Policía (FOP) que durará un año en lugar del contrato más habitual de tres años. (El resto de la reunión se cubrirá […]
Council Approves City/FOP Contract in Heated Session
The big event at the Greenbelt City Council meeting of Monday, July 13 was the proposed approval of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the city and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) that will run for one year instead of the more usual three-year contract. (The remainder of the meeting will be covered separately.) […]
Co-op’s Rays on the Roof Completes Major Milestone
On Friday, June 12, the Greenbelt Consumer Cooperative signed off with its contractor on the first completed element in the Rays on the Roof project that was only a dream a mere 18 months before. On final completion of the new roof, Project Manager Steve Skolnik thanked the contractor, Adelphia Contracting, citing their willingness to […]