Long-time Editor Steps Down
This issue brings good wishes for the new year to you our readers from all of us at the newspaper. This issue also brings the announcement of my stepping down from the position of editor after 45 years of continuous service, plus a couple of short stints earlier. One could say I have had a […]
City Zoning Rewrite Meeting Covers NCO, Legacy Zones
Prince George’s County launched the major undertaking of rewriting its aged Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations more than three years ago. Many countywide meetings and presentations later, it is not yet near the finish line but the focus is narrowing. It will be turned over to the county council fairly soon and it is beginning […]
Christmas Bird Count Keeps The 118-Year Tradition Alive
On a frigid January 1, 13 volunteers over the course of the day, equipped with binoculars and tally sheets, gathered at Buddy Attick Park, Lake Artemesia, Greenbelt Homes, Inc. and Greenbelt Park to participate in this year’s Christmas Bird Count. They worked until sunset and afterward converged at TJ Elliot’s in Bowie for the tally […]
Greenbelt Shop with a Cop Sends Shoppers on Spree
Imagine being given a $200 gift card to buy Christmas presents for your family. This really did happen on December 16 when 25 kids from Springhill Lake Elementary School participated in Shop with a Cop at the Greenbelt Target store. Sponsored by the Greenbelt Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #32, the annual event, now in […]
Maglev Group May Prefer The Greenbelt Alignment
Kisha Brown, community and external affairs director for Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail (BWRR), told the Prince George’s County Council at a transportation briefing on October 17 that her group felt that the so-called Baltimore-Washington Parkway West maglev route would have the least impact upon Prince George’s County because it is primarily underground. She also indicated […]
Zoning Rewrite, Voting Age Top City Council’s Agenda
At the Greenbelt City Council’s last regular meeting of 2017 on December 11, council dealt with two longstanding issues: expressing its concerns with the draft zoning ordinance and reducing the minimum voting age to 16. Zoning Rewrite Council approved, with some editing, a letter drafted for council’s signature by Terri Hruby, acting director of planning […]
Greenbelt Lions Toys for Tots Holds Successful Toy Drive
More than 200 toys, games and pieces of sports equipment were collected at the Greenbelt American Legion Post 136 and the Greenbelt Co-op Grocery Store in Roosevelt Center.
Greenspring Ladies Cookie Drive Aids County Women
On December 15, The Ladies of Greenspring 1 held their annual cookie exchange/donation drive co-hosted by Eulalie Lucas and Janice Davis. The group was formed over eight years ago primarily as a cookie exchange among neighbors but the focus has since changed to a donation drive supporting women or family shelters in the metropolitan area. […]
News Review Pays for a Pack Of Cigarettes and a Babysitter
The News Review’s pay scale, though hardly overgenerous at any time in its history, offered the 1950’s volunteer (as one veteran of the times noted) enough money to pay a babysitter and buy a pack of cigarettes. A great deal for a mom with demanding toddlers and a smoking habit. In comparison to 1958, however, […]
Hotel Construction Begins Next to Greenway Center
What is going on next to Greenway Center, where a large section of the parking lot has been fenced off? A new long-term stay hotel, Woodspring Suites, is now under construction at 7480 Greenway Center Drive. The hotel should be complete by the end of the summer, said Jessica Bellah, Greenbelt’s community planner. Said Bellah, […]