Book Signing for Local Author and Illustrator
Author David Cooper and illustrator Lucy Dirksen will be having a book signing for their self-published novel A Glimpse Through the Mists, as well as an exhibition of Dirksen’s artwork, on Sunday, February 26 at 2 to 4 p.m. at the New Deal Café. Both are long-time Greenbelt residents. The product of 10 years of […]
Book Teaches Self-Esteem
Pearl Buck once wrote, “Love cannot be forced. Love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven unasked and unsought.” Greenbelter Cassandra Hetzel has written The Bow and The Butterfly. Hetzel is a member of the Greenbelt Spontaneous Writers group and has been living in Greenbelt for over 10 years, participating in talent […]
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 […]