Fire and Police Turn Out To Honor GVFD’s Bregman
On Monday, February 8, the officers and members of Greenbelt Volunteer Fire Department (GVFD) were joined by members of the Prince George’s County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, Greenbelt Police Department, Glenn Dale Volunteer Fire Department (Company 18), the Metropolitan Police Department, Hyattsville Volunteer Fire Department Truck 1 and Berwyn Heights Volunteer Fire Department Truck […]
Black History
Reel & Meal Screens CodeSwitching On Monday, February 15, Reel and Meal will screen CodeSwitching, a 2019 film about a voluntary school desegregation program that bused Boston youth to better-resourced suburban schools starting in the 1970s. Greenbelt Recreation Department sponsors the film as one of its Black History Month educational offerings. The film begins at […]
I’m Honored to Have Been Part Of Greenbelt Reporting Its News
In a democracy, a free society where citizens work to forge a better life for themselves and their families, it is both a privilege and responsibility for citizens to report their news. The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press (along with the entire rule of law) is ours to safeguard, ours to make […]
Congress Requests GSA Plan For New Larger FBI HQ
According to recent press accounts, the proposal to relocate the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters to a new site, halted in 2017 by the Trump Administration, is back on track. The recently enacted omnibus spending bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to come up with a plan for a new headquarters, located in […]
County Vaccination Rollout Continues to Evolve Slowly
Rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations by Safeway (including the Greenbelt store) and Rite Aid pharmacies was promised on February 1 by the Maryland state Covid-19 website. But just after midnight on January 31, one insomniac reporter found that the sign-on site showed no appointments available. And at 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. and […]
Council Talks Crime Prevention
On January 27 the Greenbelt City Council met to discuss how best to deal with the increase in crime, most acutely violent crime, throughout the city. Franklin Park was the main focus, where homicides, particularly from shootings and aggravated assaults that have escalated to firearms, have increased. Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers reported that most […]
eBird App for Birders Yields Data for Bird Conservation

For at least 10 minutes a day, Greenbelter Michel Cavigelli is a birder. He walks into his backyard or goes onto the paths at Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), pulls out his binoculars and phone, and watches. “I’m a nerd,” explains the BARC soil scientist. “I want to write down every bird.” Cavigelli started birding […]
El condado sigue detrás de la curva Pero los lugareños comienzan a recibir vacunas
por Cathie Meetre A pesar de haber administrado más dosis en la última semana que en las anteriores, y haber superado la barrera de las primeras 25,000, el condado de Prince George todavía está muy por detrás de cualquier otro condado en Maryland en porcentaje, aunque está aumentando rápidamente. Usando los números actualizados del condado […]
Todo Greenbelt está invitado [ESPAÑOL]
Para celebrar la historia afroamericana de Lois Rosado y Leeann Irwin Unity-Umoja: Unificando nuestra comunidad mientras fortalecemos nuestra ciudad. Este año, el Comité de Historia y Cultura Afroamericana de Greenbelt tiene una gran variedad de programas virtuales y una exhibición de artefactos afroamericanos en un museo emergente. Su tema es Umoja, tomado del idioma […]
Childs to Step Down After Three Years at GNR Helm
After three years at the helm of the Greenbelt News Review, Editor Gary Childs is moving on to pursue other life objectives. Editor Emerita Mary Lou Williamson has graciously agreed to step back into the editor role until the newspaper completes its search for a new long-term editor. This search, due to the pandemic, is […]