Longtime Resident Sylvia Lewis Reflects on Her Time in Greenbelt
For more than six decades, Sylvia Lewis has called Greenbelt home. Now, as she prepares to move closer to family in upstate New York, she is reflecting on the community that shaped much of her life. Lewis moved to Greenbelt in the 1960s with her husband, Robert Lewis, who was studying at the Catholic University […]
Greenbelt Celebrates $1.8 Million In Funding for Youth Recreation
Federal officials joined Maryland and county politicians as well as local leaders in Greenbelt on Monday, March 9 to announce more than $1.8 million in federal funding for youth recreation projects, including repairs to the Greenbelt Youth Center and improvements to the Springhill Lake Recreation Center. The funding, secured through congressionally directed spending, will support […]
What’s the Deal with Data Centers?
A recently proposed data center in Landover sparked protests and a desire by local communities to learn more about what data centers are, why they are important and the potential effects they can have, including on the communities where they’re built. It’s a topic currently debated by Prince George’s County Council, one that will likely […]
City Council Revisits Collective Bargaining for All City Employees
On March 2, the Greenbelt City Council continued its deliberations at a worksession on expanding collective bargaining rights to the entirety of its non-managerial and non-classified workforce. Currently, the city has a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). The Public Works department (PW) is in the midst of its selection […]
City Master Plan for Indian Creek Park Nearly Final; Multi-use in Small Space
The city held a community meeting for public review and input for the Indian Creek Park concept plan at the Springhill Lake Recreation Center on Tuesday, February 17. The city- contracted Mahan Rykiel Associates landscape architecture firm reviewed the plan they updated based on community feedback from a November 2025 meeting and resident emails since […]
Collective Bargaining, Flooding And a New School Occupy Council
The focus of the February 23 meeting of the Greenbelt City Council appeared to be on communicating as council gave guidance to the lawyers working on the changes needed to expand collective bargaining rights to all city employees, heard a status report on development of a flood resiliency plan for parts of the city and […]
March 10 Town Hall on Cell Service Follows 8 Years of Cell Tower Debate
In Greenbelt, the debate over cellphone infrastructure has shifted over the past eight years. What began in 2017 with opposition to a proposed cell tower near Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) has evolved into broader concerns about service reliability and coverage gaps across the city. 2017: ERHS Tower Proposal The modern debate intensified in spring […]
For the First Time in 30 Years Greenbelters Can Adopt Pit Bulls
When Doreen Clower comes home and calls out “puppy love,” Milo races down from the top of the steps to greet her. Other times he climbs onto the edge of her bed, lifts his paws around her neck and rests his head on her shoulder. “That just makes me feel like he knows that I’m […]
ERHS Students Say ‘ICE Out!’ Local Students Organize, Protest
“Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here!” This was just one of many chants that were passionately shouted out by Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) students on the morning of Friday, February 13, when scores of them walked out of their classrooms and to the front of the school to protest for […]
Remembering the Greenbelt Fair Housing Struggle During the 1960s: Part One
Part one of a two-part story. Note: Both Black and white workers built Greenbelt in the 1930s, but only white families were accepted to live in the new town. This article does not discuss all persons, activities and letters related to 1960s Greenbelt fair housing efforts, instead providing a representative sampling. When speaking of that […]