Cast of 45 Is Homeward Bound; Story of Penelope and Odysseus
Unscrupulous suitors. Conniving cannibals. A shape-shifting sea god. Showgirl sirens. Porcine ponderings. All of this and more can be found in the 2019 Greenbelt Youth Musical that opened with two performances last weekend at the Community Center. The Greenbelt Youth Musical celebrates its 19th year by reprising a popular production from seven years ago, Homeward […]
Newly Scanned Newspapers Will Soon Be Posted Online
Greenbelt in the 1960s: a libel suit filed against the News Review, Peace in Vietnam rallies, Spiro Agnew elected as Maryland’s governor (with hearty support from Greenbelt voters). Cecilia Franck is getting a taste of what life in Greenbelt was like back then while scanning newspapers for the Greenbelt Archive Project (GAP). Franck, a University […]
Del. Washington Addresses School Funding at Table Talk
A table talk with Maryland State Delegate Alonzo Washington was held Saturday at the New Deal Café to update citizens on the Kirwan Commission’s recommendations for Maryland school funding. According to Washington, a Kirwan Commission member from Prince George’s County’s 22nd District, preliminary recommendations made in January outline how to make Maryland’s public schools more […]
Video de recluta de policías. Usando prueba de aptitud física.
Flexiones, abdominales, sentarse y estirarse, y correr una milla y media. El video de la prueba de ajuste del departamento de policía de Greenbelt muestra a los oficiales de policía haciendo sin esfuerzo el grado de aptitud física. El video, publicado en el sitio web del departamento y en su página de Facebook, fue diseñado […]
Little Leaguers Encourage Moviegoers to Join the Team
February 23 was the perfect rainy Saturday for kids and parents to enjoy a hilarious movie at the Old Greenbelt Theatre and support Greenbelt’s now-official Little League program. Over 100 people, 53 adults and 50 children, attended the free movie. Enthusiastic Little Leaguers Mason Keaton and Oscar Gaycken encouraged guests to invest in their Little […]
Reenactors Present Program On Lives of Free Black Women
On Wednesday, February 13, the Greenbelt Golden Age Club welcomed club member Joyce Bailey and three women to speak on and reenact the lives of free African American women in the early-tomid-19th century. Bailey, along with Helen Assad, Carol Gordon and Marie Davenport Schneider, are members of the Female RE-Enactors of Distinction (FREED). FREED is […]
Small World Effect Connects Greenbelter and Dog Guides
The small-world effect is the observation that one can find a short chain of acquaintances connecting almost any two people on the planet. Denna Lambert is a Greenbelter, although our paths had never crossed. In writing a story for the News Review, I had a chance to interview her at a judo clinic. Her dog […]
Thornton insta: No te rindas, lucha por la igualdad para todos
El progreso racial en Greenbelt, los prejuicios en el liderazgo estadounidense y la necesidad de empoderar a los niños a través de la educación fueron el tema central del discurso del mes de la historia negra pronunciado el domingo por el Dr. Alvin Thornton a una multitud de más de 200 en el Centro Comunitario. […]
Virginia Beauchamp Dies at 98: Professor, Led Women’s Issues
Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, 98, a longtime resident of Greenbelt, died on Sunday, February 10, 2019. An English professor at the University of Maryland, she began advocating for a Women’s Studies Program at the university in 1968 and was the first coordinator of the new program when approved in the mid-1970s. Dr. Beauchamp continued as a […]
Thornton Urges: Don’t Give Up Fight for Equality for All
Racial progress in Greenbelt, prejudices in American leadership and the necessity of empowering children through education were the focus of the Black History Month speech given Sunday by Dr. Alvin Thornton to a crowd of over 200 at the Community Center. Thornton, chair of the Prince George’s County Board of Education, has a rich history […]