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Reality TV Show Destination X Features ERHS Alum Tai Lowry

At left, a brown-skinned woman with long light-brown hair wearing a white dress. She sits in a red-and-black "director's chair" in the main auditorium of the Greenbelt Cinema. She smiles broadly and points her right index finger toward audience members sitting to her left. One audience member looks toward Lowry and points back at her, while others look ahead toward the screen.

Greenbelter Tai Lowry took part in a wild ride across Europe for the NBC reality show Destination X, hosted by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Ten contestants were selected to live, eat and sleep on a bus with blacked out windows and move around to destinations unknown. Their challenge was to figure out where they were by […]

Greenbelt Labelled Sanctuary City by Homeland Security

A chart is titled Violent Crime Offending Rates by Citizenship/ Documentation Status, 2012-2018. The x-axis shows the years from 2012 to 2018. The y axis is labeled Arrest Rates Per 100,000 Persons. The line for "undocumented immigrant" stays on or slightly below the "100 Arrests" level. The line for "documented immigrant" starts at the "200 Arrests" level and varies somewhat, ending at around "175". The line for "U.S. Born Citizen" starts at "200 Arrests" in 2012 and ends at around "225."

On Thursday, May 29, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published on its web site a list of sanctuary cities, counties and states it said were defying the government and endangering America. Among them was Greenbelt. The city responded with a press release, in which it stated that it “complies with all applicable federal and […]

Greenbelt Animal Shelter Reopens With Upgrades and More Staff

A hallway with green walls and swirly brown floors. Hanging on the wall at right is a rack of colorful dog leashes.

After months of closure, the freshly renovated Greenbelt Animal Shelter reopened Monday, June 2 and welcomed residents to an open house to see the changes, apply to volunteer and meet the staff who kept the program running through a difficult stretch. That especially difficult stretch started with the resignation of two out of three animal […]

City Council Affirms DEI Commitment, Funds Indian Creek Master Plan, Bike Racks

During the May 27 Greenbelt City Council meeting council affirmed its commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), approved funds for the creation of a master plan for Indian Creek Park and for the installation of a bike rack near the Co-op Supermarket, and received a briefing on the county’s transit plan. Commitment to DEI […]

Greenbelt Honors Fallen Heroes on Memorial Day

Greenbelt American Legion Post 136 officers joined Greenbelt City Council and county and state government representatives on May 26 at the city’s War Memorial for a solemn Memorial Day ceremony honoring those who died during the nation’s wars. An audience of about 100 attended, including veterans wearing emblems of prior military service. Ingrid Watson, District […]

Council Reviews Public Safety Expenditures Ahead of Budget

On April 30 City Council held a budget worksession to discuss public safety expenditures, which constitute approximately two thirds of the city’s annual budget. Under discussion were budget requests from the Greenbelt Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad and the Greenbelt Police Department. Attending the worksession were Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad President Greg […]

Council Considers $120,000 In Recognition Group Grants

Two Greenbelt City Council worksessions with city Recognition Groups took place on Wednesday, May 14 and Monday, May 19. Representatives of a total of 18 (nine per session) groups attended in order to discuss their group’s request for in-kind or financial support for fiscal year 2026 (FY 2026) with council, City Manager Josué Salmerón and […]

Two Greenbelt Women Learn Art Of Building an Earthen Oven

Greenbelters Jeannie Bellina and Melissa Ann Ehrenreich traveled on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 11 to Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reisterstown to learn from former Greenbelter Joe Murray how to make an earthen, smokeless pizza oven using natural materials.  Inspired by stories of how Toronto public parks have created almost 20 pizza ovens for community use […]

Consultants Brief Council on City’s Economy; Prepare Strategies, Plan

An orange construction vehicle on pavement. At left, dug-up brown dirt. At right, grass and green trees.

Economic development was the first topic discussed at the Greenbelt City Council worksession on May 5. Three consultants, Molly McKay from Willdan Financial, Rick Amminato from Civic Consulting and Alivia Metts of the Metts Group, were there to share their most recent findings and analysis of the city’s business environment and how to improve it. […]

Recreation, Arts Present Goals, Progress and Needs to Council

On April 23 the Greenbelt City Council heard from the Recreation Department about their Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget and then heard about revisions to the city code. The Recreation department budget, as presented by department head Greg Varda, is made up of nine sub-budgets: administration, arts, aquatic and fitness, museum, therapeutic recreation, community center, […]