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 […]
City Requests Overlay Zone Be Included in Zoning Law
Whether the county rezoning process would leave old Greenbelt unprotected from higher density development was the key issue before the Greenbelt City Council at its September 11 regular meeting. Aileen Kroll presented council with a petition with roughly 2,000 signatures requesting them to go on record that night, in the presence of County Councilmember Todd […]
Council Adds Voting Age, Maybe Dam Loan to Ballot
Voters will likely see two referendum questions on the ballot when they go to the polls on Tuesday, November 7. The first question, whether to lower the voting age to 16, was unanimously approved for referendum by the city council at its September 11 meeting. A second question is whether the city should borrow up […]
Putens and Boyce First Filers for Council Elections
Ed Putens, long-term council member and historic first filer extraordinaire, and George Boyce, challenger and the inspiration behind MakerSpace, both filed as candidates in time to make this week’s edition of the paper. Read their full bios in the paper by clicking here.
Excitement as Goddard Team Prepares for Cassini’s Finale
When the Cassini orbiter plunges into the atmosphere of Saturn on September 15, a group of NASA scientists based in Greenbelt will be among those waiting for the spacecraft’s last long-distance ping. That bittersweet signal will mark the end of an era for the team, which has devoted two decades to operating the spacecraft’s heat-ray […]
From New York With Love: Songs for Greenbelt’s 80th
The island of Manhattan may seem an unlikely place to go prospecting, but when it’s musical gold you’re after, Chris Cherry affirms that New York has the richest lode on Earth. The city’s performing arts coordinator recently ventured to the Big Apple in search of some hard-to-find songs for the upcoming Greenbelt Legacy 80th Anniversary […]
Environmentalist Paul Downs Is 2017 Outstanding Citizen
The year was 1987 and a developer had a grandiose plan to replace 100 acres of the Great North Woods with residential buildings and streets, said Bob Zugby, chair of the Outstanding Citizen Selection Committee. At the Labor Day Festival that same year, Paul Downs asked the band Magpie to dedicate their song, The Land […]