A Look Back at 2022
The News Review presents highlights from last year’s news stories. The reviews were prepared by Anna Bedford-Dillow, Deb Daniel, Jon Gardner, Amy Hansen, Cathie Meetre, Diane Oberg, Lois Rosado, Melissa Sites and Gloria Walters-Flowers. Covid Infections Increase, Impacts Decline Covid-19 in the U.S. was about 22 months old as 2022 began. Remarkably, by then, vaccines […]
2021 Election Survey Results Are Impacted by Covid Effects
In its meeting of November 28, the Greenbelt City Council discussed the results of the Election 2021 Community Questionnaire. Interim Assistant City Manager Debi Sandlin presented the results. The outcome closest to the News Review’s heart was that the favorite pathway for residents to receive city news was this newspaper. It was more popular than […]
Windsor Green Needs Carriers After Disruption in Delivery
Hopefully, Windsor Green residents are reading this in a newspaper that just arrived on their doorstep. A few weeks ago, door-to-door deliveries to the condominium townhouse community abruptly stopped when the carrier who had delivered them for almost 20 years resigned the day before publication. Because this carrier worked for the Home Owners Association (HOA), […]
Cooperative Roots Run Deep For GHI and News Review
In this third episode of our Co-op Month story, the largest co-op in Greenbelt (or at least the one with the most square-footage) and the only worker cooperative get their share of the limelight. Greenbelt Homes, Inc. GHI is a large cooperative housing organization (though dwarfed in size by the 35-building, 15,000-family behemoth in […]
Greenbelt’s Consumer Co-ops Are Crucial to Local Lifestyles
Every cooperative organization in Greenbelt and elsewhere is governed by a board and any member can run for election to it – each is a grass-roots democracy. Decisions are made by the board and the management carries out those decisions. Most local co-ops exist through the determined efforts of a small number of residents who […]
Do Greenbelt Road Bike Lanes Add to City’s Bike Friendliness?
Cyclists and drivers be warned. The Maryland State Highway Administration, apparently without consultation with the city, has painted bike lanes on Greenbelt Road heading west from the intersection with Kenilworth Avenue. They run from the intersection, past Dora Kennedy French Immersion School, the school bus lot and the first two entrances to Beltway Plaza. The […]
Greenbelt Shares Cooperative Roots with Early U.K. Activists
October is Co-op Month and Greenbelt has perhaps the largest concentration of cooperatives per capita anywhere in the U.S. With seven varied co-ops, the city epitomizes the cooperative spirit. City cooperatives include the Greenbelt Co-op Supermarket & Pharmacy, Greenbelt Federal Credit Union, Greenbelt Homes Inc., Greenbelt Nursery School, Greenbelt News Review, New Deal Café and […]
Council Looks at ARPA Funds, Signatures, Pumpkins, SPACE
On Tuesday, September 27, Greenbelt City Council presented a proclamation to representatives of five of the city’s seven cooperatives, reaffirming council’s support at the start of Cooperative Month, and also recognized Hispanic Heritage Month and the city and library activities taking place to celebrate them. A major item concerning results of a space study are […]
Labor Day Festival for 2022 Revives a Joy Thought Lost
The News Review last week gave this city the big stories of the Festival – Outstanding Citizen Maggie Cahalan and the overall spirit of the weekend. This week, and possibly in coming weeks, some of the niche elements that make the Festival an encompassing celebration will be showcased. Readers will find more photos, more awards, […]
On Losing Queen Elizabeth II: Home Thoughts from Abroad
Oddly, given that more than two-thirds of my life has been lived away from England, in the last few days people have felt compelled to offer their condolences to me on the loss of the queen. And unexpectedly, given my long voluntary exile, it means a lot to me. Perhaps this is because she is […]