Small-scale Investments Can Build Strong Towns
On Tuesday, October 8, a coalition of Greenbelt community organizations and businesses sponsored a guest lecture and discussion with Chuck Marohn Jr., the founder of Strong Towns, a nonprofit research and educational organization based in Minnesota. A civil engineer and planner, Marohn is an expert in the sustainability and resilience of towns and cities. The […]
Un profesor de ERHS escribe un libro de texto de inglés para hispanohablantes
El profesor de Eleanor Roosevelt High School Hubert Willoughby vió la necesidad de un sistema de enseñanza de inglés a hispanohablantes que cubriera sus necesidades únicas. El resultado es su nuevo libro Inglés Americano para hispanohablantes. El libro personaliza el aprendizaje para este grupo “al enfocarse en los principales desafíos fonológicos y gramaticales que enfrentan […]
Goldberg-Strassler Named Sports Broadcaster of the Year
Jesse Goldberg-Strassler, former Greenbelter and broadcaster of Lansing Lugnuts, received the 2019 Broadcaster of the Year award. Goldberg-Strassler is the author of The Baseball Thesaurus and The Football Thesaurus and the award winner of the 2013 Midwest League Broadcaster award. In 2004, Goldberg-Strassler interviewed for several teams at the winter meetings and was hired as […]
Cub Scouts Do Their Best To Clean Up Forest Preserve
Ranging in age from the smallest Lions (kindergarten) to Webelo Arrow of Light scouts (5th grade), Greenbelt Cub Scout Pack 202 and their families showed up in force to help clean up the Forest Preserve earlier this month. On the first cool autumnal Saturday morning, October 5, Jason Martin, city environmental coordinator, provided grabbers and […]
Museum Lecture On Mapping Racism
The Greenbelt Museum will host a lecture this Thursday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Community Center, entitled Mapping Racism. Stuart Eisenberg, executive director of the Hyattsville CDC (HCDC), will talk about that organization’s multi-faceted project which shines a light upon the historic use of racially-restrictive deed covenants in the area. […]
Foro Público anuncia los Acuerdos y desacuerdos de los candidatos
El jueves 3 de octubre, los Candidatos del Concejo Municipal hicieron una reunión introductoria, en la cual le dieron al público la oportunidad de conocer a los candidatos, mostraron alarma por el consejo sobre un posible proyecto maglev y plantearon preguntas sobre el gobierno del establecimiento. Incluyendo a los candidatos, hubo alrededor de 25 asistentes […]
Rezoning Briefing Continues Concerns, Calms Some Fears
This is part one of a two-part series about a recent worksession at which the Greenbelt City Council was briefed on the proposed Prince George’s County zoning changes which will likely be voted on in November, 2020. Rezoning and the county’s master plan have long been a source of concern for Greenbelt. In particular, zoning […]
Public Forum Airs Candidate Agreements and Disagreements
The City Council Candidates Meet and Greet on Thursday, October 3, gave the public a chance to meet candidates, displayed council alarm about a potential maglev project and raised questions about establishment government. Including the candidates, there were about 25 attendees at the televised forum. Rohanie Bacchus, a representative of the Greenbelt East Advisory Coalition, […]
Absentee Voting, Early Voting Available to Voters Next Week
It’s hard to believe. Given that at this writing not all the candidate signs are posted, little campaign literature has surfaced, there is still Q&A to be dealt with in this paper, and the number of candidates running for city council has barely settled down, it’s hard to believe that Greenbelters will be able to […]
FPAB Revises Stewardship Guidelines at Worksession
On Wednesday, September 25, representatives of the Forest Preserve Advisory Board (FPAB) shared edits to the portion of the City Code that spells out the Forest Preserve Code, Stewardship Guidelines and Health Assessment at a worksession of the Greenbelt City Council. In general, council’s reaction was that the revisions were very helpful, achieving greater conciseness […]