Green Man Festival Features Music, Art and Composting
Dozens of vendors turned out to share their wares alongside many cooperating and collocated environmental groups focused on protecting the environment and improving understanding of Greenbelters’ place within the local ecology, as part of the 14th Annual Green Man Festival held at Roosevelt Center on Saturday and Sunday, May 12 and 13. A community drum […]
Primary Election is June 26: Deadline to Register, June 5
Mid-term elections always loom large as a bellwether for what will follow at the end of the term, and this year talk of the mid-terms can scarcely be avoided. In Maryland, the first steps toward the November 6 mid-term elections are the Democratic and Republican primary elections, to be held on Tuesday, June 26. For […]
Data Gathering Delays Rec Department Plan Rollout
By now, the Greenbelt Recreation Department had planned to have presented council with a draft Recreation and Parks Master Plan for their review. However, the data gathering portion of the work took longer than expected. The department now expects to present the draft to the city council and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB) within […]
In Memoriam – Kelly Ivy: Extraordinary Man Who Put Family, Kids First
Kelly Ivy, Sr. died in his sleep in the early hours of Wednesday, May 9. He was 63 and spent 45 of his too-short years married to his wife Linda. He leaves Linda and their children, Kelly P. Ivy Jr. (Megan), Jamie Apgar Howarth (Robert), Amanda Williams (Daniel) and Emily Cole (Christopher), and a niece […]
Twin Cats Reunited, After Decades and an Ocean Apart
The silent auction had an unexpected bonus for two cats. Reunited after decades apart, the cats now live contentedly together in the household of Jon and Anne Gardner, both News Review members. The story begins in England when the Gardners met in Durham in northeast England some 25 years ago. They had decided to get […]
Celebrating The Old Greenbelt Theatre’s Birthday on May 6
Old Greenbelt Theatre celebrated its third birthday on Sunday, May 6 by looking to the past and then to the future. The first performance of the evening was the play Danger, a drama set in a Welsh coalmine after a cave-in. The play, originally commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation, had been performed in Greenbelt […]
City Council Opposes P3 State Highway Widening Proposition
In order to address the area’s impending traffic build-up, a proposition, dubbed the P3 Program, is under consideration by the State of Maryland that could result in the widening of sections of I-270, I-495 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (see map on page 13). This could have negative effects on daily life in Greenbelt and on […]
Beltway Plaza is Town Center For West-side Greenbelters
A Washington Post article from December 2016 declared that Beltway Plaza had dodged the bullet of suburban mall death by finding an “immigrant niche.” Janubi Devendra, director of marketing at Beltway Plaza, describes it as “community-oriented.” Either way, the Mall has a warm, multicultural vibe, like the Franklin Park community immediately to its north. It’s […]
ERHS Symposium Shows Off Students’ Science Acumen
Eleanor Roosevelt High School celebrated its 34th Annual Research Symposium on April 26, with all 231 science and tech seniors presenting their year-long projects. The research practicum has been called a science fair on steroids. Students stand with professionally finished posters and discuss their work with parents, mentors and other classmates. In addition, 20 or […]
Slow Trail Progress Frustrates Greenbelt Station Residents
It’s been a long time coming and the end, a completed trail, is not yet in sight. The Greenbelt City Council held a worksession on Monday, April 16, to discuss the seemingly never-ending saga of the trail that is to connect Greenbelt Station to the Greenbelt Metro Station. The residents who spoke at the meeting […]