Labor Day Festival: GES Plans Used Book Sales In Yards and at the Center
A book sale is not a new idea in Greenbelt. Annual book sales were happening around Greenbelt even as early as 1948 when the town was still new, according to the archives of the Greenbelt Cooperator. The Greenbelt Elementary School (GES) is taking their annual book sale into the new decade with their hybrid Labor […]
Public Works Keeps Roads, Sidewalks Clear of Snow
Greenbelt Public Works was still cleaning up on Tuesday, six days after the unusual early spring snowstorm last Wednesday, March 21, according to Jim Sterling, GPW director. A full crew of 40 to 45 employees worked 11.5 hours straight starting at 5 a.m. on Wednesday to clear the snow, after pre-treating the roads with salt […]
DACA Marchers Eat and Stay In Greenbelt En Route to D.C.
Six Greenbelt families opened their homes to a total of 25 marchers on the Journey to Stay Home on their way to Washington, D.C. The group of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients, other undocumented immigrants and their supporters have been walking since they started in New York City on Thursday, February 15. The […]
Dog Park Worksession Leads To More Info and Fewer Sites
Council selected three potential locations for the new dog park: Greenbelt Lake dam, Northway Fields and Stream Valley Park, in order of preference. In arriving at its recommendation, the worksession members discussed the current dog park and analyzed the relative merits of the eight locations suggested in the city’s survey and one additional location, Stream […]
SCMaglev Issue Brings Forth Many Meetings, Set Opinions
Greenbelters attended three meetings this week about the proposed SCMaglev (superconducting magnetic levitation) train project. Citizens asked questions of the project developer, Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail (BWRR), on Friday, January 19 at the New Deal Café. At the Greenbelt Firehouse on January 20 community organizations and elected leaders gathered while people signed letters of concern […]
Colin Byrd joins six incumbents. Both questions win approval
Colin Byrd, 24, will join the six incumbent city council members for the next two years. As the results came in and the gathering did the math of who did and did not make it at the election night event at the Greenbelt Firehouse there was calm but also many disappointed faces. There were no […]
My Point of View: Some Thoughts on Labor Day
The signs are up, the flyers are out, the bracelets are for sale and the orange barrels are starting to gather around Roosevelt Center. As someone who moved to Greenbelt a little over a year ago the Labor Day Festival was the first sense of what Greenbelt was all about to me. The Festival website […]
Burglary Suspect Chased Into Ceiling at AMC Theater
The AMC Academy 8 Theater in Beltway Plaza was evacuated and closed for over three hours on Tuesday afternoon when a burglary suspect being pursued by the Prince George’s County Police Department (PGCPD) hid in the ceiling space to avoid the police, according to Greenbelt Police spokesperson George Mathews. Prince George’s County Police had the […]
Michael McLaughlin, Greenbelt’s Consummate Public Servant
Michael McLaughlin is known to city residents and his colleagues as a good listener, a strong leader and a stabilizing force in Greenbelt. His retirement from the position of city manager, which he has held since July, 1996, marks a period of the city’s history during which there was expansion of city services, improvement to […]
Tutor Gets Students Speaking English During Lunch Period
In a room near the Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) cafeteria, laughter and giggles are mixed with Spanish and English as a 77-year-old volunteer and a group of sophomore girls who speak very little English try to tell each other about their holidays. The groups on both sides of the conversation work hard together to […]