Council Hears Lakeside North Petition, Other Citizen Requests
The key item of interest at the January 23 meeting of the Greenbelt City Council was the presentation of a petition related to a proposed apartment building adjacent to Lakeside North Apartments. Once this item was completed, most of the attendees at the meeting left, leaving council and a few residents to deal with grants […]
Pepco’s Triple Whammy Jeopardizes Movie House
It all started in June, 2015 when Friends of the Old Greenbelt Theatre (FOGT), the newly selected operator of the cityowned movie house at Roosevelt Center, asked the Pepco electric utility to begin billing it for electricity consumption at the theater. The initial bill was for $442.39 but future bills declined and by October monthly […]
Greenbelters Hold a Sister March in Roosevelt Center
In Roosevelt Center on January 21, a “sister march” gave Greenbelters a local venue to march in solidarity with Women’s Marches around the world. Marchers circled the plaza from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., approximately 20 altogether, solitarily and in groups, including toddlers and dogs, locals and even out-oftowners who were unable to get to […]
Crowds Queue for Hidden Figures – Held Over another week.
Crowds filled the Old Greenbelt Theatre on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday to see the movie Hidden Figures, theater management reported. More than 1,500 people came over the four days, creating lines that went from the theater across Roosevelt Center to the New Deal Café, prompting the theater management to appear outside to say that […]
Information Technology Firm T-Rex Comes to Greenbelt
T-Rex has invaded Greenbelt and was warmly welcomed by the Greenbelt City Council at its January 11 worksession. Don’t be alarmed. It’s not the infamous but extinct dinosaur. This T-Rex is an information technology (IT) business that has located its corporate offices and a major production center doing contract work for the U.S. Census Bureau […]
Tutor Gets Students Speaking English During Lunch Period
In a room near the Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS) cafeteria, laughter and giggles are mixed with Spanish and English as a 77-year-old volunteer and a group of sophomore girls who speak very little English try to tell each other about their holidays. The groups on both sides of the conversation work hard together to […]
Women’s March Challenges Greenbelters to Get Downtown
Many women (and men) from Greenbelt expect to take part in the Women’s March on January 21 in Washington, D.C. Many are using Facebook to link up and make plans to march together. People are opening their houses to friends they haven’t seen for years who want to come and march. And there are semiorganized […]
Greenbelt Announces New City Manager
Monday night’s city council meeting started with the approval of lots of sets of minutes for executive sessions dealing with personnel matters. It peaked with the approval of a contract to hire a new city manager, and it ended with lots of hugs and cupcakes for the retiring city manager. Ever since Michael McLaughlin’s announcement […]
Greenbelt Lake Forebays Completed with Fanfare
The engineers’ message to the stream water is clear: We’ve cleared out the forebays. So slow down. Drop your dirt. Then, and only then, enjoy your time in the lake. After about four months of dredging the bays and replanting, Greenbelt and county officials, as well as Prince George’s County’s Clean Water Partnership celebrated the […]
Greenbelter Solomon on Team That Takes Biology Into Space
“Terps in Space” is the fundraising title for the project Microbial Pathogenicity in Microgravity for which three University of Maryland seniors will send a Fluid Mixing Enclosure (FME) up to the International Space Station where astronauts will conduct an experiment involving bacteria and then return the tube to Earth. “The goal is to discover how […]