Greenbelt’s Beloved Ambassador, John Henry Jones, Remembered
John Henry Jones, 98, of Greenbelt, died peacefully on June 11, 2026, surrounded by family and friends. Born May 6, 1928, in the coal mining town of Houston, Penn., he was the youngest son of Hillery Hubbard Jones and Albertha Napper Jones. The generations are long in the Jones family, as John Henry’s father was […]
M-NCPPC Litigation to Impact Funding for Greenbelt Projects
On June 26, a judge for Prince George’s County Circuit Court temporarily blocked the county’s transfer of $39 million from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) to its own budget. Members of the Prince George’s County Council argue the funds are taxpayer dollars they are free to repurpose while the M-NCPPC argues the […]
Goddard’s Area 400 Transferred To U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
On Tuesday, July 7, leaders from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) convened with other officials in the area of Goddard’s campus known as Area 400 for a ceremonial transfer of the approximately 105-acre plot from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to the USFWS. Goddard’s […]
Local News Network Summit Explores Future of Journalism
On June 12, journalists, media scholars and news leaders from across the region gathered at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism on the University of Maryland (UMD) campus for the annual Local News Network Summit, a day-long event focused on the future of local journalism. Among those attending were the Greenbelt News Review’s Managing Editor […]
Council Advances Collective Bargaining for City Employees
The Greenbelt City Council met in regular session on June 22. At the meeting, council approved the first reading of an ordinance amending the city’s Labor Code chapter on Personnel to establish the procedures governing collective bargaining and labor-management relations for designated city employees (certain eligible full-time and regular part-time non-exempt, non-managerial and non-confidential employees). […]
City Celebrates Fourth of July With Traditions, New Festivities
For generations, Greenbelt’s annual Fourth of July fireworks have served as one of the city’s signature traditions, drawing thousands of residents and visitors to Greenbelt Lake for an evening of patriotic celebration, community gathering and one of Maryland’s few remaining municipal fireworks displays. While many surrounding communities have discontinued their Independence Day fireworks shows, Greenbelt […]
Greenbelt Offers Options: A Quiet Fourth on the Third
The city is giving residents two ways to celebrate Independence Day this year: a new community-focused event on Friday, July 3 and the annual fireworks celebration at Buddy Attick Park on Saturday, July 4 as part of the nationwide commemoration marking the nation’s 250th anniversary. Chill-ebration Friday The festivities begin on Friday with the city’s […]
One Month In, City Stop-sign Cameras Draw Mixed Reviews
More than 11,000 stop-sign camera citations were issued during the first month of Greenbelt’s new stop-sign camera enforcement, generating more than $73,000 in paid fines. The program has drawn mixed reactions from residents, particularly over the $40 fines issued to drivers who fail to come to a complete stop. The city partnered with Obvio, which […]
Who Should Be Greenbelt’s 2026 Outstanding Citizen?
With the arrival of July, the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival is just two months away. Since 1973, the Festival includes a unique Greenbelt tradition: announcing the annual Outstanding Citizen. Greenbelt annually celebrates one of its most generous volunteers at the Labor Day Festival, on a permanent plaque in the Community Center and as Labor Day […]
William Bayly Is Greenbelt’s Forgotten Revolutionary Patriot
In 1824, just two years shy of the 50th anniversary of American independence, a patriot of the Revolution breathed his last on a farm in what is now Greenbelt Park. He was William Bayly, surveyor, merchant, farmer, state legislator, justice of the peace, member of Maryland’s first constitutional convention and captain of a militia company […]