Destination Imagination
On Saturday, March 3, seven students from Greenbelt Elementary competed in the Central Region Destination Imagination competition for Prince George’s County. Destination Imagination is a STEM/Creative Processes club for students around the world. The Greenbelt Elementary Piercing Shrills (team name) earned 2nd place in the elementary level engineering challenge, Drop Zone. The students have been […]
Lady Raiders Win Eighth State Title Behind McCalla’s Efforts
The Eleanor Roosevelt Lady Raiders basketball team fought back from a halftime deficit to win the program’s eighth state championship in 14 years, beating the defending champions, the Catonsville Comets, 60-56. Ashia McCalla led the way, including two game-defining shots, as the Lady Raiders outworked the Comets in Saturday’s championship victory. The Lady Raiders entered […]
GES Mosaic Mural Portrays Native Flowers and Wildlife
On Wednesday, February 28, fourth- and fifth-grade art class students at Greenbelt Elementary School (GES) began gluing down tiles on a mosaic mural depicting native flowers and the animals that pollinate them such as butterflies and hummingbirds. Based on drawings by students, local artist Valerie Theberge drew the final design and laid out the outlines […]
ERHS Student Walkout Protests Gun Violence
Eleanor Roosevelt High School students joined a national protest against gun violence on March 14, when an estimated half the school’s 2,400 students walked out onto the football field. The protest was sanctioned by the school and heavily monitored by the police. Protest signs read “Who’s Next?” and “Protect Kids, Not Guns.” After 17 minutes, […]
ERHS Raiders Score Victories
Both Varsity basketball teams played exciting games. Girls on Track for State. The Lady Raiders saw eighteen points flashed on the scoreboard for them before the Parkdale Panthers registered a single point. Although Parkdale had been Roosevelt’s stiffest county competition this season, the Lady Raiders were never seriously threatened after their torrid start. Roosevelt’s pressure […]
Artist’s Exhibit of Oil Portraits Tells Stories at New Deal Café
Spiritual allegory meets modern family in some of the pictures at the New Deal Café exhibit of Amanda Demos Larsen’s work this season. In one of her self-portraits, He Did Eat, Larsen veils her gaze and holds a sharp knife while handing her spouse a slice of apple. In another, Afraid to Look, Larsen shows […]
Greenbelt Weathers Nor’easter: Officials Respond Effectively
Along with much of the east coast, Greenbelt was pummeled by a major windstorm over the past weekend. The storm, a nor’easter, blew tropical storm force winds gusting up to 65 miles per hour according to the Washington Post meteorological team, the Capital Weather Gang. Widespread power outages were reported across the region. As of […]
Here Is My Story, Now Tell Me Yours
My plan for after I retired from federal service last September was to first spend a few months visiting family and friends, and catching my breath after 36 years in the workforce. After those few months my idea was that I would spend my time editing and publishing the things I’ve written (essays, stories, poems, […]
DACA Marchers Eat and Stay In Greenbelt En Route to D.C.
Six Greenbelt families opened their homes to a total of 25 marchers on the Journey to Stay Home on their way to Washington, D.C. The group of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients, other undocumented immigrants and their supporters have been walking since they started in New York City on Thursday, February 15. The […]
Council Approves Sweeper Purchase, Seeks Bus Funds
Aside from decisions on whether to support four bills submitted in the Maryland General Assembly, which will be reported separately, the city council had a relatively short list of action items on its February 12 meeting agenda with a number of them to be carried over to the next regular meeting on February 26. There […]