Greenbelt News Review Has Big 80th Year Birthday Plans
November of this year will mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of this newspaper. Since 1937, every week has seen an issue – through war, through storms, through unrest and turmoil. The paper takes its role seriously as an intrinsic and essential part of the fabric of this community. Correspondents frequently note that the […]
Moving with the Stars
Rather than using a science textbook to teach astronomy to second graders at Greenbelt Elementary School (GES), students became the Perseus constellation. For the past few weeks, local dancer Angella Foster and her alight dance theater led “movement labs” as part of the school’s commitment to arts integration, visiting each second grade classroom three times. […]
Michael McLaughlin, Greenbelt’s Consummate Public Servant
Michael McLaughlin is known to city residents and his colleagues as a good listener, a strong leader and a stabilizing force in Greenbelt. His retirement from the position of city manager, which he has held since July, 1996, marks a period of the city’s history during which there was expansion of city services, improvement to […]
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 […]