Election 2020: Who, What Else Is on the Ballot?
(This is the second in a series of articles about the ballot for the General Election.) While it’s true that the Donald Trump-Joe Biden race has been absorbing almost all of the oxygen, there are a number of other items on the 2020 Maryland General Election ballot this year that voters should weigh in on. […]
Quienes se postulan para Presidente ¿Además de Trump y Biden?
Esta es la primera de una serie de articulos sobre lo que está en la boleta para las Elecciones Generales de 2020. Esta semana cubrimos a los candidatos presidenciales y vicepresidenciales. Si bien es cierto que la carrera Donald Trump-Joe Biden ha absorbido casi todo el oxígeno en la carrera presidencial, hay varios otros candidatos […]
Evento anti racismo Domingo 13 de septiembre
La iglesia Greenbelt Community Church, United Church of Christ invita a la comunidad a participar en una discusión educativa contra el racismo el domingo 13 de septiembre a las 7 p.m. a través de Zoom. Durante esta reunión, la discusión se centrará en varios trabajos literarios y cinematográficos contra el racismo que incluyen Little Book […]
Anti-Racism Event Sunday, September 13
Greenbelt Community Church, United Church of Christ invites the community to participate in an anti-racism educational discussion on Sunday, September 13, at 7 p.m. via Zoom. During this meeting, the discussion will focus on various anti-racism literary and film works that include The Little Book of Racial Healing, the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Roots, the […]
Who’s Running for President Besides Trump and Biden?
This is the first in a series of stories about what’s on the ballot for the 2020 General Election. This week we cover the presidential and vice presidential candidates. While it’s true that the Donald Trump-Joe Biden race has been absorbing almost all of the oxygen in the presidential race, there are a number of […]
Council Continues to Urge County for the NCOZ Zone
On Wednesday, August 19, Mayor Colin Byrd drafted a letter to the Prince George’s County Council stating that the city is “advocating strongly for the creation of the Greenbelt Neighborhood Conservation Zone (NCOZ) as a tool for protecting existing density, height and massing within historic Greenbelt.” This was the result of a 5 to 1 […]
Royal Farms Developers Give Proposed Site Plan to Council
Representatives of RF Greenbelt RE, LLC, came before the Greenbelt City Council on Wednesday, September 2 to present their Detailed Site Plan (DSP) of a proposed Royal Farms to be constructed on the east end of the intersection of Capitol Drive and Greenbelt Road. This proposal will be coming before the Prince George’s County Planning […]
How Does This Newspaper Get to Its Gentle Readers?
The News Review has multiple ways of getting to its readers. Many read it electronically, though each week we send a bunch of paper copies out by U.S. Postal Service to folks who still have a hankering for their News Review, sometimes after decades living elsewhere. A significant number of papers get to readers via […]
Envío de regreso de la boleta de voto a distancia: Buzón, correo o en persona (ESPAÑOL)
Las solicitudes de boleta de voto a distancia, enviadas por la Junta Electoral del Condado de Prince George a todos los votantes registrados, comenzaron a llegar a los hogares en Greenbelt la semana pasada. Los votantes que no planeen votar en persona deberán enviar la solicitud lo antes posible por correo para recibir su boleta […]
Back to School 2020: Distance Learning Enabled by Technology
On August 31, Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS), which includes Greenbelt schools, began the 2020-2021 school year with online distance learning. Not only is this required because of the ongoing pandemic, but it is also part of the district shift toward one-to-one personalized technology-based instruction. “With the onset of distance learning, we have an […]