Top Stories of 2024
The News Review presents highlights from last year’s news stories. The reviews were prepared by Cathie Meetre, Erica Johns, Diane Oberg, Deanna Dawson, Pat Scully and Anna Bedford-Dillow. Greenbelt Loses Career Firefighters On June 30, Prince George’s County Fire Department (PGFD) removed career fire and rescue personnel from Greenbelt, Berwyn Heights, Bowie and Bunker Hill […]
McCarl Dental Marks 100 Years; Four Generations of Dentistry
The McCarl Dental Practice is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. James W. McCarl started it off. He was born in Mapleton Depot, Pa., in 1895 and at age 15 went to Washington, D.C., where he found work and finished high school. He joined the U.S. Army and served in France during World War […]
Women of Greenbelt Past – Fredericka Martin: Finding A Home Everywhere She Went
Fredericka Martin came to Greenbelt in April of 1939 to be the supervising nurse at the new Greenbelt hospital. Born in 1905 in Cooperstown, N.Y., Martin graduated nursing school in Christ Hospital in New Jersey and served as supervisor and head nurse in several hospitals in New York City. During the early 1930s, she became […]
ERHS Students Again Participate in National History Day Contest
Students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) participated in a National History Day competition for the first time in more than 10 years. The local event took place on January 31 after being postponed by snow from its originally scheduled date of January 17. Led by ninth-grade U.S. history teacher Victoria Patch-Williams and Judith Barrera, […]
Greenbelt’s Marigza Conserved Featured WWII Photo Album
Greenbelt resident Anne Marigza, a conservator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), did behind-the-scenes work on a WWII-era photo album that is the center of a play now onstage at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Harman Hall. The play, Tectonic Theater Project’s Here There Are Blueberries, is about the photo album received by USHMM and […]
Our Newspaper Turns 85 But Its Name Is Not Yet 70
The Greenbelt News Review turns 85 years old on November 24 (coincidentally Thanksgiving Day this year), but the paper’s name dates back only to 1954. The paper was first called the Greenbelt Cooperator, a name the Journalistic Club selected as appropriate for a town founded on cooperative principles. Not everyone liked that name, though, evidenced […]
Disused Buildings on BARC Are Proposed for Demolition
On July 27, 2022, the USDA Agricultural Research Service released an Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed demolition of 117 buildings at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC). The EA states that the purpose of the proposed action is to “reduce long-term operational and maintenance costs and reduce BARC’s impact on the Chesapeake Bay watershed,” […]
Candidates for County Council, Congress Give Views at Forum
Donna Edwards and Glenn Ivey, Democratic candidates for U.S. Representative for Maryland Congressional District 4, participated in a forum on Sunday, June 26, at the Greenbriar Community Building in Greenbelt East. Sponsored by the Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Club and moderated by Club President Konrad Herling, the forum presented an opportunity before the July […]
Women Played Important Roles In Shaping Life in Early Greenbelt
Household and shopping tips, recipes, introductions of new residents, society items, news of women’s activities and organizations – these were some of the things covered on the women’s page(s) in the Greenbelt Cooperator. The Mrs. Greenbelt section, which appeared in the first issue of the Cooperator (published November 24, 1937) and ran through June 20, […]
One of the FSA Photographers Lived in Greenbelt for a Time
Part 2 of 2 Greenbelt’s construction and the early years of life in the community were well documented by photographers employed by the federal government’s Resettlement Administration (RA) and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which succeeded it. The Greenbelt photos are part of the FSA/Office of War Information (OWI) Photograph Collection, which documented American life […]