Walk To School Day
Students, parents, teachers and Greenbelt police all took to the streets to celebrate Walk to School Day. Greenbelt Elementary and Springhill Lake Elementary were the scene of convivial meeting and greeting for students living nearby in the community.. See the gallery of pictures in the paper by clicking here.
Senior Mobility Worksession Reveals Needs and Solutions
On October 2 all members of the Greenbelt City Council were in attendance to hear a presentation on a report prepared by the KFH Group, Inc. of Bethesda on the Senior Mobility and Accessibility Needs and Barriers Study. Funded by a grant from the Transportation/Land-Use Connections Program of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, […]
GHI Candidates Forum Offers Conflicting Views on Issues
On Tuesday, October 3 Greenbelt Homes Inc. (GHI) hosted the first candidates’ event of this election season. To accommodate the bumper crop of contenders, the event lasted three hours instead of the usual two. Response times were shortened to two minutes for the opening question and one minute for all other responses, causing frustration among […]
Proposed Expansions of I-495, BW Parkway Could Affect City
Governor Larry Hogan’s proposal to expand I-270, the Capital Beltway (I-495) and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD-295) could have a significant impact on the residents of Greenbelt, officials say. The $9 billion project, announced in a press release by Hogan’s office on September 21, would add four express toll lanes, two in each direction, to I-270 […]
Roosevelt Center Will Groove To Jazz Festival Saturday
The Greenbelt Jazz Festival will be held on Saturday, October 14 starting at 1 p.m. at the Roosevelt Center and from 8 to 11:30 p.m., in the New Deal Café. Five different groups, ranging in style, will perform. Big Band Tradition starts with a big bang at 1 p.m. This fullsized, seasoned jazz orchestra plays […]
Local Teen’s Film to Screen In International Festival
In the Garden, an original animated short film created by Greenbelt resident Alexandra Nickel, will screen during the Ninth Annual Tofuzi International Animation Festival held in Batumi, Republic of Georgia, October 2 to 7. Her film is one of 10 accepted in the category films created by children and is the single U.S. film in […]
Utopia Festival Will Screen Diverse Films, Oct 14 & 15
Greenbelt’s Utopia Film Festival 2017 is scheduled for the weekend of October 14 and 15 at the Greenbelt Arts Center and Old Greenbelt Theatre, with an array of independent documentaries, features, short films and animation from across the nation and around the world. “In this tense social and political climate, when divisiveness is defiantly paraded […]
Council story reference to the Klu Klux Klan involves a march that was to take place in 1997.
The News Review wishes to clarify that the Klu Klux Klan march referred to in our story on the September 11 council meeting that appeared in the September 21 issue of the paper, actually refers to an anticipated situation in November 1997 and that no such march is envisaged in 2017. The online paper has been […]
Leta Mach and Ric Gordon File for Council Election
Incumbent Leta Mach and challenger Ric Gordon are the next two candidates for city council to submit their biographies to the newspaper. Their nomination forms have been certified by City Clerk Bonita Anderson. The biographies are prepared by the candidates. Read their full bios in the paper by clicking here.
Annual Blues Festival Brings Out Greenbelt’s Faithful
The annual Greenbelt Blues Festival brought together music lovers for a full day of entertainment on Saturday, September 16. Now in its 15th year, the event was produced by the New Deal Café. The Friends of the New Deal Café Arts, a volunteer, non-profit organization, provided the funding for the festival, with additional support from […]