Mother of Hubble Telescope Inspired Greenbelt Scientists
Nancy Grace Roman, who died at age 93 on December 25, 2018, was widely regarded as the “Mother” of the Hubble Space Telescope. She became one of the first division chiefs at NASA soon after it started up in 1958, and was tasked with “formulating a program from scratch” as chief of Astronomy and Relativity […]
5 Capital Bikeshare Stations Considered for Greenbelt Area
Capital Bikeshare (Bikeshare) may be coming to Greenbelt. Bikeshare is a bicycle-sharing company that serves Washington, D.C., Arlington County, Fairfax County, and Alexandria in Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland. If a current proposal, recently submitted to the city of Greenbelt by the Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPWT) is approved, Bikeshare […]
Bridge to Go Sunnyside Up With Road Improvements
Road work is underway on Sunnyside Road to prevent flooding and ease congestion. Sunnyside Road is one of a limited number of east-west crossings over the north-south railway line that divides Beltsville from Greenbelt. As a result, it – like Powder Mill Road – carries significant traffic. It also acts as a southern alternative to […]
Los residentes enfrentan el cierre del gobierno: Los asuntos de dinero amenazan
Un cierre del gobierno federal afecta muchas áreas de la vida, pero los problemas económicos son, en cierto modo, los más obvios. Cuando un negocio se cierra, ya sea temporalmente como en este caso, o permanentemente, por ejemplo, una empresa privada que ha cerrado, sus empleados sienten los efectos económicos. Estas son algunas de las […]
Three School Board Members Are Graduates of ERHS
According to Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) Principal Reginald McNeill, it is exciting to see graduates Raaheela Ahmed, David Murray and Joshua Thomas in important leadership positions, that of serving on the Board of Education for Prince George’s County Public Schools. He remembered that during their time at ERHS they distinguished themselves as prominent leaders, […]
Tres miembros de la Junta Escolar Son graduados de ERHS
Según el director de la Escuela Secundaria Eleanor Roosevelt (ERHS), Reginald McNeill, es emocionante ver a los ex-alumnos Raaheela Ahmed, David Murray y Joshua Thomas en importantes posiciones de liderazgo, sirviendo en la Junta de Educación de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Prince George. Recordó que durante su estadía en ERHS se distinguieron como […]
Stories on How the Government Shutdown is Affecting Greenbelters.
There are several stories on this topic throughout the newspaper. How is the U.S. government partial shutdown affecting people who live in Greenbelt? The News Review invited a large cross-section of Greenbelt residents, via the Greenbelters page on Facebook, to share stories about how people or businesses in town are being directly affected by the […]
Greenbelter Jaden Dirksen Earns Eagle Scout Award
It took almost eight years, but Greenbelt resident Jaden Dirksen of Boy Scout Troop 214, chartered to the Prince George’s County Elks Lodge #1778 in Riverdale, reached a lifetime goal by earning his Eagle Scout badge, the highest rank awarded by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The fact that a youth is an Eagle […]
ERHS Student Self-Portraits On Display at BWI Airport
The Maryland Art Education Association and Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport partnered to present a juried youth exhibit in the Youth Art Gallery of BWI. The theme was The Many Faces of Maryland. A total of 24 portraits were hung in the show, including three Prince George’s County Public Schools student works selected from […]
Stream Restoration Planned Near University Square Aptartments
If all goes according to plan, come June contractors for the Prince George’s County Department of the Environment (DOE) will begin an outfall and stream restoration project northwest of the basketball court at University Square apartments. The Greenbelt City Council received a briefing from Adeel Malik, senior engineer at the DOE, on Monday, December 3. […]